Will Elon Musk be remembered as an automotive pioneer? | John Naughton

The answer, I suspect, lies in his mastery of the business of manufacturing complex products. One sees it, for example, in the way SpaceX, the aerospace company he set up to reduce the colossal costs of space travel, has become the first non-state organisation to: successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft; send a spacecraft to the International Space Station; manage the first vertical takeoff and vertical landing for an orbital rocket; and send astronauts to the International Space Station. Anyone who thinks this stuff is easy has never done it.

Words of wisdomHow to Fix Social Media is a long, thoughtful and historically informed essay by Nicholas Carr in the New Atlantis.