Here is the link to the article. I’m not sure if it’s behind a paywall, but often, if you do a Google search for the title, it will take you to the same article without a paywall.
Writer Jill Lepore has been studying Musk’s vision of the future since 2021and concludes that he does a lot of his thinking through the lens of science fiction — without understanding the “fiction” part. “He misreads everything that he reads,” she told New Yorker editor David Remnick in an interview. Others who have followed Musk’s obsession with travel to Mars are already aware of his trouble with concepts such as distance and time.
