Bezos tried to make a TV adaptation of the Culture space opera series, by the Scottish writer Iain Banks (“a huge personal favorite”) Mr. Weirdly, Muskism, an extravagant form of capitalism, is inspired by stories that indict … capitalism. Billionaires, having read stories of world-building as boys, are now rich enough, as men, to build worlds. Bezos was obsessed with as a kid last month, he sent William Shatner, the actor who played Captain Kirk in the original series, into space.
There’s a version of it, the holodeck, in “Star Trek,” a TV show that Mr. Metaverse, the term, comes from a 1992 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, but the idea is much older. But from missions to Mars and the moon to the metaverse, it’s all Muskism: extreme, extraterrestrial capitalism, where stock prices are driven less by earnings than by fantasies from science fiction. Musk, who likes to troll his rivals, mocked Mr.
The world’s techno-billionaires are forging a new kind of capitalism: Muskism. Now he was going to die.The metaverse is at once an illustration of and a distraction from a broader and more troubling turn in the history of capitalism. His once-promising career was already in tatters. So this is how it all ends, crashing on a rock in the middle of nowhere? Merken gritted his teeth. “Who shot my ship? I want a return volley before we crash.” Force fields prevented them from getting sucked out into deep space. The captain looked out the broken windscreen. “Emergency power and life support functioning. We’re the Ensign Moore climbed back up in his seat. “Who shot my ship? I want a return volley before we crash.” “No bogeys in the area, Captain. We are not holding orbit, Sir.” The captain looked out the broken windscreen. Ensign Moore climbed back up in his seat.
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