From Silicon Messiah To Rogue Billionaire: The Musk-Factor And The Fallacy Of Power – OpEd

For a moment in the early 2020s, Elon Musk seemed to bestride the globe like a tech-age colossus — the Tony Stark of the real world, the eccentric visionary who would colonize Mars, electrify the planet, and redefine the human-machine interface. Presidents sought his counsel; Pentagon officials flirted with his technology; even...