America must embrace the Electric Age, or fall behind

When it comes to technology, listen to Elon Musk.

America must embrace the Electric Age, or fall behind When it comes to technology, listen to Elon Musk. Noah Smith Jan 09, 2026 468 151 65 Share Photo by Oronbb via Wikimedia Commons Elon Musk is America’s China. That sounds like a silly thing to say, but what it means is that what the entire economy of China is set up to do — scale up high-tech manufacturing businesses — is something that only one man in America knows how to do. Only Elon has built China-like manufacturing businesses in America, and he has done it twice now — SpaceX and Tesla. When something like that happens twice, it wasn’t

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