Futureproof Extra: Survival of the Richest
Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
English - September 13, 2022 06:30 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsScience radio Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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You’ve probably seen the likes of '2012' or more recently 'Don’t Look Up' - disaster movies where there’s a race against time to save humanity.
Those films also have a common thread: you have a superset of super-rich people looking to buy their way to salvation.
Pretty silly stuff, right?
But what if we told you those preparations are happening right now, and that there really is no room at the inn for the like of you and me?
Douglas Rushkoff is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at the City University of New York, and is the author of over 20 books, the latest of which is called ‘Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires' - he joins Jonathan to discuss.