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Review: Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
– Douglas Rushkoff (Scribe Publications)
Douglas Rushkoff’s newest book,
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of
the Tech Billionaires, grew out of a brilliant 2018
Medium article of the
same name, which went viral and had people (aka his US editor) clamouring for a
full-length treatment.
In both pieces, Rushkoff recounts being invited to speak about “the future of
technology”, only to find himself at a luxury desert resort in an undisclosed
location, speaking to a select audience of five unnamed hedge fund
billionaires. Within minutes, the conversation takes on a distinctly
prepper-ish tone. One of the CEOs tells Rushkoff about his newly completed
underground shelter, then asks, “How do I maintain authority over my security
force after the event?”
Rushkoff is bemused, but also grimly amused by it all. “Here they were, asking
a Marxist media theorist for advice on where and how to configure their
doomsday bunkers,” he writes. “That’s when it hit me: at least as far as these
gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
