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Douglas Ruskhkoff, the Survival of the Richest and... the Battle of Endor?

The Tech Policy Press Podcast

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A Book Review - A Novel About a Humanist

Douglas Rushkoff: I got invited to do a talk for, you know, the typical group of bankers who pay you too much money to come out. And it turned out they brought five dudes into the dressing room. They were peppering me originally with kind of investor like questions about the net and virtual reality augmented reality. He says he would say if the wealthiest and most powerful technologists and investors feel powerless to influence the future that the best they can do is prepare by preparing for climate catastrophe or pandemic or social unrest or nuclear war.

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