Elon Musk documentary is already causing a stir. Here are five takeaways.

Travis M. Andrews via Washington Post: Gibney’s film, to be broadly distributed in October, attempt to explain the mechanism by which technological charisma is converted sequentially into capital, capital into infrastructural control, infrastructural control into political influence, and political influence into insulation from ordinary accountability. In so doing, it becomes a considerably stronger thesis than simply portraying Musk’s unpleasantness or narcissism.

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