Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow

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5. There's always a fascination

with the techie types that manage to become famous, despite their geekiness. That even happened to Edison, although at a certain point, he was out of good ideas. His scheme to run the world on DC current fell flat in the face of a more efficient system of AC current.

I've seen this happen in my lifetime with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, but the public keeps hoping for a tech savior that will emerge to solve all of our problems. If a scientifically-minded person comes up with three or four really good ideas in a limited time span, they've exceeded the output of many of their fellow techies, but it doesn't automatically make them a genius, no matter how much the media will feed that image to an adoring public.