Stories by Rebecca Charbonneau

Rebecca Charbonneau is a historian at the American Institute of Physics and author of Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain.

OpinionFebruary 6, 2025

Why Elon Musk’s ‘Fork in the Road’ Is Really a Dead End

Elon Musk’s Fork in the Road isn’t just a sculpture—it’s a monument to the tech world’s obsession with civilizational survival, which has its roots in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Rebecca Charbonneau