When i was in college, wright in my thesis, you know, id go to the we had these places called computer centers. Nobody could afford their own computer, but you'd have a c r t monitor or some kind connected to a main frame and you'd save your stuff on there. And when that got big enough, the a o l time warner thing comes along, and it's such a catastrophe that there's the investors are now like, look, i got to have a say on this going forward. I've been living in a read only television universe. What if what if the digital age was going to move us from a digital age to a reed media environment
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.