The bestselling biographer of such inventive personalities as Steve Jobs has written a new book about the volatile billionaire who has built electric cars, launched rockets, and thrown wrenches into the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Isaacson said,"If you ask him what the biggest problem facing America these days is, [he'll say] that we're too risk-averse, we have too many referees and not enough doers, and that's why we don't build high-speed trains or rockets that can get to orbit."; contracts with Starlink to connect our military; and plans to pay Tesla to open its network of electric-car charging stations to all drivers., journalist Ronan Farrow writes that the U.S.
But whatever his eccentricities, Elon Musk really has changed the world. Tesla's success triggered a global shift to electric cars, and SpaceX has now conducted 261 successful launches in a row for a fraction of the traditional cost to taxpayers, in large part, because the company figured out how to land its boosters after each launch and reuse them.
After helping launch the Falcon Heavy, its twin side booster rockets detach and then land upright near Cape Canaveral, April 11, 2019.When asked if he admires Musk, Isaacson replied,"A biographer has to show the light and the dark strands. And you've got to be critical of the dark strands, you've got to be admiring of the light strands. But then the toughest thing is to show how they intertwine.
"And how about his legacy?" asked Pogue."Do you think we'll be talking about Elon Musk a hundred years after he's gone?" "He brought us into the era of electric vehicles when GM and Ford had given up," Isaacson said."He said, 'Yes, we can shoot astronauts into orbit,' when NASA had decommissioned the space shuttle. So, a hundred years from now, we'll still be baffled in some ways about how dark he could be, but we'll say, 'Yeah, yeah. He put his finger on the surface of history, and the ripples came out.
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