Description: Survival of the Richest : Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, Paperback by Rushkoff, Douglas, ISBN 1324066067, ISBN-13 9781324066064, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The subject? How to survive the "Event": the societal collapse they know is coming. Rushkoff argues that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley–style certainty that they and their cohort can escape a disaster of their own making—as long as they have enough money and the right 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. Through fascinating characters—master programmers who want to remake the world as if redesigning a video game and bankers who return from Burning Man convinced incentivized capitalism will prevent environmental disasters—Rushkoff explains why those with the most power to change the world have no interest in doing so. He argues that the only way to survive the coming catastrophe is to ensure it doesn’t happen by rediscovering community, mutual aid, and human of the RichestLos Angeles Review of Books
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Book Title: Survival of the Richest : Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Media Studies, Sociology / Social Theory, Essays
Genre: Social Science
Item Weight: 6.6 Oz
Author: Douglas Rushkoff
Item Length: 8.3 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
