i feel like what digitl has done is its kind o reinforce this idea that you can go meta on everybody else. You know, digital is a symbol system. That's the real difference between like, a record and m p three. So it's kind of gone meta. And they're like, oh, right, we're gods. We're one level above humanity, yo. Theyre like, up. Some of us live off world, then we make robots to do the rest. And might as well make pleasure models. While we're at it, they can only live four years. D i've heard that before. It may not have been so bad before digitl but
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.