四大相似之處！這次“鋼鐵俠”可能找到了真命天女
David Z. Morris
2018-05-22
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上周初，特斯拉公司首席執行官埃隆·馬斯克和藝名格萊姆斯的歌手（真名克萊爾·布歇）約會瘋傳網絡。消息傳出幾小時后，兩人就一同出席了紐約大都會藝術博物館慈善晚宴Met Gala。一些更關心商界的看客可能對馬斯克和格萊姆斯交往有點不解：雖然她也坐擁大批粉絲，但還算不上家喻戶曉。 其實這兩人有很多共同點，即使你不關心八卦和音樂，透過馬斯克的新戀情，也能幫助你一窺當代最偉大科技夢想家的內心世界。接下來我們一一分析這對情侶的相似之處。 他們一步一個腳印成就個人事業 馬斯克上大學時讀的物理專業，后來輟學創業成立了線上城市導航公司Zip2。把Zip2賣給康柏電腦公司之后，馬斯克創立第三方支付服務商PayPal。賣掉PayPal得來的錢又成為特斯拉和Space X的啟動資金。 格萊姆斯也是一步步慢慢開拓個人事業。她先是低調發行了一張專輯Geidi Primes，很少有人知道這張專輯，而且還是以具有強烈懷舊復古氣息的卡帶形式發行。而后，她推出了一張略經打磨的專輯Visions，由此開始向更優秀的作品邁進。 他們都是最耀眼的核心人物 雖然馬斯克時不時感謝幫助自己獲得各項成就的工程師和高管們，但他的公眾形象氣場太過強大，多數時候功臣們都被掩蓋在他的光環之下。格萊姆斯更像在玩單人樂隊：她早期的作品在臥室里錄制，然后上傳到MySpace個人空間。她甚至自己到處巡回表演，現場用電子合成效果伴奏。 他們都來自未來 馬斯克和格萊姆斯都熱愛科技和外太空（或者可稱為沉迷）。據報道，兩人結識部分源于和人工智能有關的一個玩笑。格萊姆斯的專輯Geidi Primes 取自美國科幻小說家弗蘭克·赫伯特系列作品《沙丘》中一個虛構星球的名字。馬斯克給SpaceX旗下兩艘回收船命名時則取材于另一位科幻小說家伊恩·M·班克斯的作品。而班克斯可以說是赫伯特衣缽傳人。格萊姆斯具有回音效果的電子音樂很適合火星上的迪廳里播放，火星又是馬斯克希望建立殖民地的地方。 他們都不怕失敗，也不諱言敗績 馬斯克出了名喜歡宏大目標，即使最后沒實現也能圓場。最近馬斯克又遇上了同樣的麻煩，因為特斯拉Model S沒達到生產目標。他承認主要是他自己的問題。但同樣是追求宏大目標，Space X上周五取得有里程碑式意義的重大成功：發射并回收了獵鷹9號運載火箭Block 5?；鸺龍绦邪l射任務期間，格萊姆斯還曾出現在Space X的發射控制室里。 格萊姆斯也有出人意表之舉。2014年，她為Visions之后的新專輯推出新單曲，有些粉絲對其中一首不滿意，她索性放棄原作品，調整了整張專輯的風格。她最終于2015年發行專輯Art Angels，進一步凸顯她骨子里的非主流音樂基因，同時挺進了流行音樂界，獲得圈內外一致稱贊。 現在還不清楚馬斯克和格萊姆斯對這段感情的認真程度，將來會怎么發展（畢竟馬斯克過去的感情經歷不算很好）。但是兩人肯定有很多彼此吸引的地方，起碼有一點，馬斯克很喜歡非主流音樂，從大衛·鮑伊的搖滾到墨西哥街頭樂隊都愛聽。（財富中文網） 譯者:Pessy 審稿：夏林 ? |
Early last week, news that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was dating the musician Grimes took the internet by storm—and just hours later, they showed up together at the Met Gala. Some onlookers more focused on the business world might have been a bit puzzled —despite a passionate fanbase, Grimes (whose real name is Claire Boucher) is hardly a household name. But the two have a lot in common, and even if you don’t care about gossip or music, the relationship offers some insight into one of the greatest technological visionaries of our age. Here’s why. They Built Their Careers One Step At A Time Musk’s first company, started after he dropped out of graduate school for physics, was an online city guide called Zip2. Selling Zip2 to Compaq allowed him to build PayPal, whose sale in turn funded Tesla and SpaceX. Grimes, similarly, expanded her palette bit by bit, starting with the very lo-fi album Geidi Primes, which was so obscure its first release was on cassette—part of a nostalgic revival of the format. That built to the slightly more polished album Visions, then onward towards even bigger things. They’re The Star of Their Own Show Though Musk occasionally nods to the huge staff of engineers and execs that have helped him accomplish so much, his public profile is so immense that they mostly stay in the shadows. Grimes is more literally a one-person-band: her early works were recorded in her bedroom and uploaded to MySpace. She has even toured extensively by herself, using electronics to recreate her songs live. They Come From the Future Elon and Grimes are both preoccupied (or maybe obsessed) with technology and outer space. According to reports, they connected in part through an obscure joke about artificial intelligence. Boucher’s Geidi Primes album was named after a fictional planet in Frank Herbert’s classic Dune novels, and Musk named SpaceX’s two drone ships in honor of sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks, arguably Herbert’s most worthy successor. And Grimes’ echoey, electronic sound would fit right in at a dance club on Mars—where Musk wants to build a colony. They’re Not Afraid to Fail—And Then Talk About It Musk is notorious for setting goals so ambitious that, even when he falls short, he winds up somewhere pretty cool. Lately, that has gotten him in apparently serious trouble for badly missing production goals for Tesla’s Model 3, which he admits was largely his fault. But the same ambition led to a landmark moment for SpaceX last Friday with the launch and recovery of the Block 5 Falcon 9 rocket—during which it appears Boucher was hanging out in the SpaceX control room. Grimes seems to be made of similar stuff. In 2014, when fans were disappointed by an early song from the album that was going to follow Visions, Boucher scrapped the workshe’d done and took the whole project in a new direction. What she wound up with was 2015’s Art Angels, an album that hewed closer to her offbeat roots while still pushing into pop territory—and won her almost universal acclaim. It’s unclear how serious the Boucher-Musk pairing is, or where it might be headed (and Musk doesn’t have the best record with relationships). But they’ve got a lot going for them, including, last but not least, Musk’s obvious fondness for offbeat music, from David Bowie to mariachi. |
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