Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
By Douglas Rushkoff
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Overview
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind.Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the ?Event?: the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley?style certainty that they and their cohort can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own making?as long as they have enough money and the right technology.In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. In a dozen urgent, electrifying chapters, he confronts tech utopianism, the datafication of all human interaction, and the exploitation of that data by corporations. Through fascinating characters?master programmers who want to
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