Elon Musk named one of his kids X. He renamed Twitter X. What’s with his affection for the letter “X”?
. They called themselves Technocrats and they believed that only engineers and scientists could save the world from a looming catastrophe. As one pamphlet explained, “What Technocracy, Inc.
You’ve got your X-Men, your X-Files, your Xbox, “X” marking the beginning of the reign inaugurated by “Revenge of the Nerds.” By the nineteen-nineties, the man-boys of Silicon Valley were all very into the letter “X.” Musk co-founded X.com and SpaceX. Google opened an R. & D. division whose aim was “to solve some of the world’s hardest problems.” It was called . . . X.
But why name a baby X? “Once upon a time, a Baby named X was born.” So begins a piece of feminist science fiction published inmagazine in 1972, in its first regular issue. “This Baby was named X so that nobody could tell whether it was a boy or a girl. Its parents could tell, of course, but they couldn’t tell anybody else. They couldn’t even tell Baby X—at least not until much, much later.
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