![]() “And I think we need people with a bit more thought and a bit more balance to their vision.” “While I’ve got an immense amount of respect for what Musk has achieved in technological terms, I don’t think he has a very grown-up view of how the world works and how human beings work,” Morgan says. ![]() Morgan would prefer to see humanity organize itself into large-scale government initiatives, rather than relying on the personality quirks of a handful of super-wealthy individuals. He’s particularly skeptical of the sort of techno-utopian thinking typified by figures like Elon Musk. ![]() “I think the idea that it’s going to be some sort of reprise of the American frontier, that this is where men will go and test themselves against the cutting edge of human progress, and the expansion of the human sphere-I mean, that isn’t what it’s going to be like at all,” he says. It’s a grim vision, but one that Morgan finds far more plausible than the cheerful visions of plucky Mars colonists common in sci-fi. An ambitious terraforming effort has stalled, a victim of corporate greed, and now the Martian settlers huddle beneath a thin screen called the Lamina, which helps keep in the breathable air. ![]() Thin Air is set on a futuristic Mars colony in the Valles Marineris. ![]()
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