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Lost in space? Silicon Valley and the future of democracy

When Elon Musk talks about governance on Mars, what’s really scary are the implications for democracy on Earth.

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Elon Musk. Credit: Flickr/Bill David Brooks. Some rights reserved.

Elon Musk made headlines recently at ReCode’s 2016 Code Conference in Los Angeles for revealing more of his futurist thinking about technology and humanity. The enigmatic billionaire founder of SpaceX, Tesla Motors, SolarCity and PayPal turned heads with his argument that there’s just a “one in billions chance” that we are living in “base reality” and not one that’s simulated by a super-intelligence.