Conaway: Musk and possibly the most pertinent opinions
Elon Musk arrives at the tenth Breakthrough Prize Ceremony April 13 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP file)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, fascinated and frustrated with his city, but still in love. A columnist since 2010, his distinguished advertising career has branded ribs in the Rendezvous and ducks in The Peabody, pandas in the zoo and Grizzlies in the NBA. Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published.
So Elon Musk is coming to town.
The world’s richest man is going to build the world’s fastest computer right here. He is, in fact, already building it. And he’s going to finish it in about the same amount of time it takes to build a kid’s swing set in the backyard. Or at least in the amount of time it takes me.
Memphis, with our usual embrace of big promises from big deals from out of town, seems to be saying, “We’ll see.”
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