Elon Musk kitties never longer than three seconds. At least if you believe the biography ”Elon Musk. Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future” by 2015. But barely had time to marvel at Musks powerprostata until you are in the same book, read about his attitude to the labour law: if any one says not able to carry out a task kicks Musk him and take over the project. ”I will do your job and be ceo of two companies at the same time. I will deliver.”
There are the rumours, yes the mythology, we love to read about. Limitless visionaries who dream big but at the same time is extremely energetic. They are going to save us all – but seems barely able to save themselves. Musks uppvarvade 120-hour work weeks means that he can’t sleep without taking Ambien (the same sleeping pills that Roseanne Barr claimed turned her into a racist), he complains that he never has time to rest and spend time with his family. And utspelen from him becomes all the more strange: he calls emergency personnel for paedophiles, smoke grass in the radio, is accused of taking LSD while he twitters, while the evidence of his sadistic skills to be stacked on high.
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saviour waning not. Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos; all of them are the astroprenörer – business leaders with rymddrömmar – which had become prophets for the teknikoptimistiska gospel that will save us from the climate cataclysm. They develop technology that we do not have to take a position to our own lifestyle: we do not want to reduce our flying, flesh-eating, car driving. Instead, technology will solve it with biofuels, labbkött, eco-friendly. Or by taking us to another planet. But critics believe that the technical solutions consume too much energy and resources to be environmentally friendly, or simply is too far forward in time to catch up with the climate targets.
last week came news that the project Mars One is put down. There was a company already in 2023 to establish a permanent colony on Mars and is financed by a reality tv show where four winners each received a one-way ticket to the barren red planet. And despite the fact that the project was condemned as crazy by the researchers were missing is not encouraging, mediehajp around it.
”Losing the media källkritiken when it comes to visionary technology?” asked himself the Media in the P1 last week. No, to a company that organizes the reality show to solve the interplanetary colonisation and accommodation on a planet with atmospheric wretched living conditions is not the least bit naive. Give the team behind ”masterchef Sweden” a self-goldonder now!
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says in the feature so enchanted both the media and consumers so easily by the tekniklingo. A engineering that is located far enough forward of the leading edge tangent to the magic – and who doesn’t want to believe in magic solutions that fix everything and in addition, it maintains the sacred economic growth? The historical perspective obscure also framtidsblicken: it is, of course, thanks to technology, we can fly higher than the birds, travels faster than cheetahs, and live as long as the lobsters! Thus, there are no limits to what it can accomplish! (Flight, car, and increased longevity in itself is contributory causes to the klimatkollapsen does not belong here.)
I read in the klimattidningen Oxygen if ingenjörsknepet to simulate the effect of a volcanic eruption in order to lower the average temperature of the earth. This is because a volcanic eruption in the Philippines in 1991 led to that the average temperature decreased when particles from the eruption laid itself like a veil over the earth and isolated it from the sun’s rays. Now you want to shut out the sun in the same way by industrial vädermanipulation.
Might want to techentreprenörerna not be seen as prophets, after all. To check the weather is at least a task for the gods.