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Elon Musk, Twitter and Hypermodernity

Elon Musk, Twitter and Hypermodernity

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Apr 14, 2022
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Elon Musk is the Howard Hughes of Hypermodernity. Like Hughes, his vision of the future involves shrinking the planet down to the size of a toy by surrounding, invading and capturing it with technology. The outlines of his vision—which roughly follow the contours of Dante’s journey through the cosmos, boring down into the earth’s core and then ascending…

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