"I used to want to believe that this is just the way capitalism has, corrupted technology," he says. "But when i look back and think about it, i realize, ha eam the technologist. This is how they've been thinking about it all along." 'They're trying to sort of game this out, you know. There there there escape strategies,' writes superriciye.
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.