Elon Musk is no longer just a successful businessman or a billionaire who owns influential technology companies, but has become a figure with exceptional influence that extends to politics, media, communications, infrastructure and artificial intelligence.
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The importance of this influence lies in the fact that it is not based on wealth alone, but on owning an interconnected system of companies and technologies that affect the lives of individuals and governments, and the way people communicate, receive information and understand the world.
Through his dialogue with historian Slobodian, Klein discusses the intellectual and political background of Musk's project, and how his vision of the world and technology has evolved.
The dialogue offers an attempt to understand what lies behind his business decisions and political positions, leading to his vision of the future of humanity and its relationship with artificial intelligence , and what Slobodian sees as an effort to build an integrated system that increases the dependence of societies and governments on Musk’s companies and services, and gives him growing influence over infrastructure and information.
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