Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket
Pushkin Industries and BBC Radio 4
Elon Musk's visions of the future all stem from the same place: the science-fiction he grew up on. To understand where Musk wants to take the rest of us - with his electric cars, his rockets to Mars, his meme stocks, and tunnels deep beneath the earth — Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore looks at those science fiction stories and helps us understand what Musk missed about them. The Evening Rocket explores Musk's strange new kind of extravagant, extreme capitalism — call it Muskism — where stock prices are driven by earnings, and also by fantasies. Follow along on Twitter @ElonMuskPodcast. From Pushkin Industries and BBC Radio 4. Pushkin Industries may use this feed in the future to debut new podcasts from our catalog. If you'd like to hear more from Jill Lepore, check out her podcast The Last Archive.
Categories: Business
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What happens when artificial intelligence comes for the novelists? Journalist Stephen Marche investigates in Death of an Author, a gripping speculative mystery that was written 95% by AI, aka “Aidan Marchine,” and 5% by Marche, who skillfully crafted the story outline and machine prompts. You can get Death of an Author now at https://www.pushkin.fm/audiobooks/death-of-an-author or wherever you get your audiobooks and eBooks.
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Previous episodes
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9 - Introducing Death of an Author, A Groundbreaking AI Mystery Tue, 09 May 2023
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6 - The Evening Rocket: Robin Hood Mon, 29 Nov 2021
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5 - The Evening Rocket: Baby X Mon, 22 Nov 2021
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4 - The Evening Rocket: Iron Man Mon, 15 Nov 2021
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3 - The Evening Rocket: Planet B Mon, 08 Nov 2021
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2 - The Evening Rocket: Dimension X Mon, 01 Nov 2021
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1 - Introducing Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket Wed, 20 Oct 2021