Nvidia affair: normal midlife crisis?

Everything about the story about Nvidia and Jensen Huang screams for a film. And at the same time there are doubts as to whether it can even become a good film or series. The sensationalism is too seductive, the details like that expensive leather jacket are too easy to exploit for dramaturgical purposes. The rise and fall of a tycoon, espionage, honey traps, small investors in concern, world politicians in fear - don't you immediately have dramatic icy coldness in the eyes of showdown supervisory board meetings and a booming Hans Zimmer soundtrack in your ears?

After all, if it were possible to not draw the female characters involved entirely according to a femme fatal concept and perhaps also show how people who have suddenly become billionaires actually live (it's not just Jensen Huang himself, it's also his senior employees), it could have its show value. A tip, at sothebys.com you can check out these $100 million penthouses that are being built into the upper floors of these slim skyscrapers in Manhattan; the view from up there is fantastic.

However, you can't get to many interesting aspects of the story with such a dramaturgy that is directly oriented towards the protagonist; In some way, the Shakespearean references are always lurking there - birdsong in the hours of love, self-contrition in the "What have I done?" moments.

What is hard to grasp is this incredible combination of cheap clichés and global effects. On the one hand, this completely normal midlife crisis, the seduction and the desire for closeness (which ultimately cannot be bought), and all of it is apparently quite pure and naive and, at least on the outside, its motivations are not as pathological as Elon Musk's.

And on the other hand, there is the impact on world history with possible effects on all smartphones and computers. First, because of the chips developed by Huang, huge AI server farms are built, entire forests are cut down, the power grids of entire countries such as Denmark are overloaded and the entire human relationship to reality is challenged - and then an affair destroys stock market values ​​​​equal to national budgets, and there is at least the possibility that the entire bubble could burst and (we would be happy) AI would have to accept serious setbacks worldwide.

We would perhaps really like to see a film or series that manages to make you marvel at this combination of cliché and world drama. Or even better, a series that explains how something like this is even possible, that individual people can have so much power. It's not just about her obscene wealth, it's about her influence on the lives of so many. A series like this could perhaps also inspire people to think about what could be done about it.