Ben Tarnoff

Ben Tarnoff

Writer and Technologist

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Ben Tarnoff is a writer and technologist based in Massachusetts and is the author of Internet for the People and the co-author of Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do—And How They Do It. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and has also written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the New Republic, among other publications.

Book cover titled "MUSKISM: A Guide for the Perplexed" by Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff, featuring a plume of smoke rising against a blue sky—a striking visual that hints at the enigmatic essence of muskism.
As SpaceX slashes launch costs, governments are gaining new capabilities, while potentially outsourcing their sovereignty to Musk's private empire.