The End of Elon Musk: Time to Think Again
Based on post-industrial and post-capitalist ideas, the Californian ideology represented the spirit of optimism of the young internet in the 1990s. Knowledge-based economies and the empowerment of individuals would dissolve existing structures of power and herald the end of large corporations and governments (Barbrook and Cameron 1996). Thirty years later, we know that this optimistic vision did not come true.…