Rocket Man

I’m always recommending that people should zoom out from party politics to view the geopolitical world stage, to find out what’s really going on. But recently, I’ve come to see that we should be zooming out even further than that. Much further. We have to look at who is going to dominate space – because…

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The trouble with Elon Musk

The trouble with well-meaning philanthropists – lovers of humanity, it means – is that, so often, their thinking has been trained to go down a certain route that is ignorant of the real human condition. Elon Musk is an example, with his Neuralink. Neuralink – still in its embryonic stages, so don’t panic! – is…

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