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

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