Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Time 2021 PERSON OF THE YEAR ELON MUSK : Questions Arising

i think of these people as being secondary figures, so to speak. toyin, name the top scientists, thinkers, theorists, and i';d place them far above rich people. their creations are basically the work of those them organized to put together the mechanics of discoveries these men never made.and probably don't properly understand

i like gates for giving his money away.

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Time  2021 PERSON OF THE YEAR  ELON MUSK

Read this memorable article and ask yourself some provocative questions.

How is the kind of achievement described here possible?

This is a man who left South Africa for the US, convinced that was ''where things happen''.

During his academic program at Stanford, the university whose presence has been strategic  for Silicon Valley, he fell in with such entrepreneurs  as the founder of PayPal, in which context he  he made perhaps his first fortune. The rest is history. [The TIME article suggests the story is more complex]

Stanford is also the university attended by Yang and Filo, the founders of Yahoo and by Brin and his co-founder of Google, all of whom left graduate programs in that university to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.

Between Stanford, represented by those figures, and Harvard, from where Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both dropped out as second year undergrads to pursue their dreams, the alumni of these universities are shaping  the global present and future at a pace greatly disportionate to their number.

What is going on?

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