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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>March 5, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ The origins of his book - he has some
great and important rants in this video - worth hearing ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Douglas
Rushkoff | Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech
Billionaires</b><br>
Author Events<br>
Sep 26, 2022<br>
Recorded September 20, 2022<br>
In conversation with Kevin Werbach<br>
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Acclaimed for their intersectional explorations of cyberculture,
religion, currency, and politics, Douglas Rushkoff’s 20
bestselling books include Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus,
Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, and Media Virus. He also
is the host of the Team Human podcast, writes a column for Medium,
and created the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The
Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. A professor of media theory and
digital economics at City University of New York, Queens College,
he was selected as one of the world’s 10 most influential
intellectuals by MIT, was the first winner of the Neil Postman
Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, is a
recipient of the Marshall McLuhan Award, and has received many
other accolades. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff reveals the
flawed mindset that has led out-of-touch tech titans to prepare
for a societal catastrophe they could simply avert through
practical measures.<br>
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Chair of the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at
the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Ken Werbach is
the author of For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize
Your Business and The Blockc<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><i>[ New book reviewed in a video opinion by
Beckwith ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri"><b>The
Billionaire Mindset to Survive Global Societal Collapse like
Abrupt Climate System Change</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Paul Beckwith</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> 1,272 views Mar 4, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Over the last week or so I read the new book
by Douglas Rushkoff called “Survival of the Richest: Escape
Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires”.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> The book gives many fascinating insights
into the Mindset of many billionaires, their worldview that we
are heading to societal collapse, and how they are hoping to
survive in bunkers or on remote islands in the event of global
catastrophe.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> The core of the book is how Rushkoff was
invited to an exclusive resort in the middle of the desert, for
one-third his annual professor salary, to what he thought was a
talk to a hundred of the wealthiest people. Instead, he met with
five billionaires and peppered with questions such as “New
Zealand or Alaska?”; what’s the best place to be to survive
climate catastrophe causing societal collapse. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> I found the book fascinating, so I chat
about the ideas and thoughts of the super elite, who are much
more concerned about saving their own hides than they are about
the well-being of the people on the planet; they just want to
escape. They make little effort to “save humanity” and are
absolutely certain societal order and civilization will soon
collapse. The more money and power they accumulate, the less
empathy they have for others, borne out by studies measuring
brain activity patterns. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> I have often said that we need to take the
entire military budget of the USA (about 800 Billion $ for 2023)
and use it to fight climate change for a few years. That’s a
tough sell, but one billionaire near the top of the heap has
about one third of that amount, so the top three or four
billionaires could match that amount. Utopian, I know, but times
are getting very desperate.</font><br>
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<p><i><font face="Calibri">[ Get it... this is e</font></i><i><font
face="Calibri">ditors' pick Best Books of 2022</font></i><i><font
face="Calibri"> - Amazon site ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies
of the Tech Billionaires Hardcover – September 6, 2022</b><br>
by Douglas Rushkoff (Author)<br>
Editors' pick Best Books of 2022<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Named One of the Most Anticipated
Books of 2022 by Kirkus and Literary Hub<br>
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The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want
to leave us all behind.<br>
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Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff
to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive
the “Event”: the societal catastrophe they know is coming.
Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the
influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley–style certainty that
they and their cohort can break the laws of physics, economics,
and morality to escape a disaster of their own making―as long as
they have enough money and the right technology.<br>
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In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The
Mindset in science and technology through its current expression
in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the
metaverse. In a dozen urgent, electrifying chapters, he
confronts tech utopianism, the datafication of all human
interaction, and the exploitation of that data by corporations.
Through fascinating characters―master programmers who want to
remake the world from scratch as if redesigning a video game and
bankers who return from Burning Man convinced that incentivized
capitalism is the solution to environmental disasters―Rushkoff
explains why those with the most power to change our current
trajectory have no interest in doing so. And he shows how recent
forms of anti-mainstream rebellion―QAnon, for example, or meme
stocks―reinforce the same destructive order.<br>
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This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to
transcend the landscape The Mindset created―a world alive with
algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish
tendencies―and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human
interdependency. In a thundering conclusion, Survival of the
Richest argues that the only way to survive the coming
catastrophe is to ensure it doesn’t happen in the first place.<br>
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