The final step in Elon Musk’s Quest To Punch The Celestial Heavens is convincing people who won’t pay taxes for roads and schools that they should pay them in the name of Scientific Adventure.
I took the name for this space from Venkatesh Rao’s theory that we construct a beige bubble around ourselves to numb the trauma of constant future-shock. I learned of it from Warren Ellis’ How to See the Future — just like everyone else did. I am stealing from the visual aesthetics of…