In 95, 96 97, the internet was just a new wayto connect and communicate. By 99, two thousand people saw it as a wealth creation tool. Amanpour: We all genuinely believed that the internet would allow us to unleash the collective imagination in a way that wasn't possible before.
Have you ever found yourself sitting around a table at a luxury resort with five mega-rich strangers who want to know where you think they should build their doomsday bunkers? Absurd as it may sound, that actually happened to media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. Today on the show he explains why the 0.01 percent are obsessed with escaping climate change, global pandemics, political upheaval ... and us.
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