Errol Musk made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Errol Musk as South African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent.
Errol Musk was born at Pretoria in 1946. His recorded nationality is South Africa.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as businessperson, politician and mechanical engineer.
Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
Working from South Africa shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Errol Musk is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Worked as businessperson, politician and mechanical engineer
