Musk's Attention Economy Is Slipping Into Recession

Elon Musk’s empire spans energy, cars, rockets, robots and more besides. The common thread is his command of attention: attracting it, shaping it and monetizing it. The world’s wealthiest person has been busy in this regard of late, hosting two earnings calls, including this week’s inaugural one for Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX. He also sat for a long interview with The Economist, offering visions of artificial intelligence and humanity’s future, laced with the controversy and