How Billionaires Are Preparing For Doomsday - Douglas Rushkoff - #557
Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, futurist, writer and documentarian. The world's richest people are preparing for the end. They're buying up farming land and below-ground bunkers in New Zealand. What catastrophe is it that they think is about to...
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Summary
Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, futurist, writer and documentarian.
The world's richest people are preparing for the end. They're buying up farming land and below-ground bunkers in New Zealand. What catastrophe is it that they think is about to happen? And what happens if technology creates a techno-hell instead of a techno-utopia?
Expect to learn what happens when you're invited to brief billionaires on the future downfall of the earth, whether having your own sovereign nation at sea is a realistic idea, whether it's possible to live in an underground missile silo with an indoor infinity pool, what mindset is driving this techno-paranoia and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:56) How Billionaires Are Preparing Now for Doomsday
(08:26) What Introduced Douglas to this Subject?
(16:31) The Possibilities of Seasteading
(26:33) Society’s Knee-jerk Reaction of Totalitarianism
(31:46) The Parts of Preparation that Billionaires Struggle with
(37:59) Desire for a Better, More Enjoyable Future
(51:28) How Individuals & Society Can Improve
(1:01:07) Where to Find Douglas
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