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Speaker 1: Pushkin. When I was in university, I thought about what

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Speaker 1: would most affect the future of the world, and the

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Speaker 1: three areas that I came up with the Internet, sustainable energy,

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Speaker 1: and making life multiplanetary. Elon Musk, the richest person in

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Speaker 1: the world, represents a strange new kind of capitalism. Call

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Speaker 1: it Muscism, inextravagant extreme capitalism, extraterrestrial capitalism where stock prices

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Speaker 1: are driven by earnings but also by fantasies, specifically science

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Speaker 1: fiction fantasies. Be prepared for a fantastic adventure into the future,

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Speaker 1: a monstrous world of terran chaos. I'm Jillapour, historian, New Yorker,

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Speaker 1: writer and host of the podcast The Last Archive, and

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Speaker 1: I've long been fascinated by Silicon Valley's futurism because to me,

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Speaker 1: those visions of the future all come from the same place,

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Speaker 1: the science fiction that these guys grew up on. People

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Speaker 1: have called you the real Tony Stark. You're trying to

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Speaker 1: do good things and you're a billionaire. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that seems a little bit like either superhero or super villain.

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Speaker 1: You have to choose one. You're trying to do useful

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Speaker 1: things to understand where Musk wants to take the rest

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Speaker 1: of us with his electric cars, his rockets to Mars,

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Speaker 1: his meme stocks, his tunnels deep beneath the earth. We

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Speaker 1: have to look at those science fiction stories and understand

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Speaker 1: what he's missed about them. So blast off of me

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Speaker 1: on the Evening Rocket on a journey into the history

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Speaker 1: of the future. You can listen to The Evening Rocket

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