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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre we living in a Robert Heinlein-type reality?
Elon Musk being the Man who Sold the Moon?
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Are we living in a Robert Heinlein-type reality? (Original Post)
OAITW r.2.0
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68er
(33 posts)1. And here I was thinking it was more Philip K. Dick....
Jirel
(2,386 posts)2. Yes.
Just look at all his fake headline interlude chapters from his later years. They used to be soooooo funny and over the top.
bamagal62
(4,630 posts)3. I never read RH.
But, I was thinking Twight Zone or Handmaids tale myself.
OAITW r.2.0
(32,881 posts)4. I really think Musk read Heinlein and took his ideas to heart.
Suggest reading, The Man Who Sold the Moon.....It,s pretty short but it explains how the individual, with enough capital, can make himself bullet-proof from legal justice.
When you are a trillionaire, you think different from the rest of us.