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#557 - Douglas Rushkoff - How Billionaires Are Preparing For Doomsday

Modern Wisdom

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The Future of Humanity

We make, like you're saying, the short-term convenient choice. And then on the other end, again, because of this totalitarian environment, those so-called long-term thinkers are thinking about the civilization of 40 trillion bots spread out through the universe rather than the 800, whatever, 8 billion people alive today. So they go so far on the other extreme that, wait a minute, what about just sort of medium long-term then just the next 500 or 1000 years? Let's look at that. It's a difficult one, man. It really is.

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