Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the āEventā: the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valleyāstyle certainty that they and their cohort can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own makingāas long as they have enough money and the right technology.
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 charactersāmaster 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 disastersāRushkoff 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 rebellionāQAnon, for example, or meme stocksāreinforce the same destructive order.
This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend the landscape The Mindset createdāa world alive with algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendenciesāand 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 doesnāt happen in the first place.
This book title, Survival of the Richest (Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires), ISBN: 9780393881066, by Douglas Rushkoff, published by W. W. Norton & Company (September 6, 2022) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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