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In a biography about him that was written by Ashley Vance, Musk quite explicitly told Vance that one of the reasons why he started to push this Hyperloop system, despite the fact that he had no intention of actually building it on his own, was to fight the high-speed rail system in California, and to ensure that it wouldn’t be built. And so you can really see, in that moment, that Elon Musk has a very particular idea of how the transportation system should work — and he really didn’t want high-speed rail to be part of that system.
How Tech Billionaires Are Threatening America’s Transportation Future
Kea Wilson
Because whenever people come together to help either another person or another creature, something has happened, and everyone wants to know about it—because we all long to know that there’s a graciousness at the heart of creation.”
Wherever we go on Earth—even into what’s seemed like the most hostile possible environments for life—as long as there is liquid water and some source of chemical energy we find life.”
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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