Soi just walked into, i stepped on board a ship as it was going down. And there was no desire to expand out an experiment and make cool stuff like i had seen in that conference. The newyork times called me the morning before the time warner merger to say, we want you to write the piece about Time Warner's buyout of Aellis. They didn't bring any imagination into it. Within months they're carting the water coolers out of the timetime life building. It just, it kind of corporatizes everything if you're not careful.
In this episode we sit down with Douglas Rushkoff, a media scholar, journalist, and professor of digital economics who has a new fire in his belly when it comes to the world of billionaire preppers, which comes across in his new book Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires – inspired by his invitation to consult a group of the world’s richest people on how to spend their money now to survive an apocalypse they fear is coming within their lifetimes.