Speaker 1: Pushkin. When I was in university, I thought about what
Speaker 1: would most affect the future of the world, and the
Speaker 1: three areas that I came up with the Internet, sustainable energy,
Speaker 1: and making life multiplanetary. Elon Musk, the richest person in
Speaker 1: the world, represents a strange new kind of capitalism. Call
Speaker 1: it Muscism, inextravagant extreme capitalism, extraterrestrial capitalism where stock prices
Speaker 1: are driven by earnings but also by fantasies, specifically science
Speaker 1: fiction fantasies. Be prepared for a fantastic adventure into the future,
Speaker 1: a monstrous world of terran chaos. I'm Jillapour, historian, New Yorker,
Speaker 1: writer and host of the podcast The Last Archive, and
Speaker 1: I've long been fascinated by Silicon Valley's futurism because to me,
Speaker 1: those visions of the future all come from the same place,
Speaker 1: the science fiction that these guys grew up on. People
Speaker 1: have called you the real Tony Stark. You're trying to
Speaker 1: do good things and you're a billionaire. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that seems a little bit like either superhero or super villain.
Speaker 1: You have to choose one. You're trying to do useful
Speaker 1: things to understand where Musk wants to take the rest
Speaker 1: of us with his electric cars, his rockets to Mars,
Speaker 1: his meme stocks, his tunnels deep beneath the earth. We
Speaker 1: have to look at those science fiction stories and understand
Speaker 1: what he's missed about them. So blast off of me
Speaker 1: on the Evening Rocket on a journey into the history
Speaker 1: of the future. You can listen to The Evening Rocket
Speaker 1: beginning November first on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts.