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🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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It seems like the Earth’s billionaires are desperate to escape the planet. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are looking to outer space. Mark Zuckerberg is looking to the inner space of virtual reality. So many billionaires are buying up land and luxury survival bunkers in New Zealand that it’s hard to keep track.
Do they know something we don’t? Or do they just have the money to act on fears they themselves were instrumental in creating?
Here today to help me answer that question is Douglas Rushkoff. Rushkoff is a media theorist and author. His newest book is out on September 6. It’s called Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.
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0:00.0 | Tadden, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.4 | It's a unit system. |
0:12.6 | I know this. |
0:14.6 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
0:16.8 | It tells you everything. |
0:18.6 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.3 | Eagle One. The package is being delivered. |
0:25.0 | Hello out there on the internet. |
0:27.1 | I am Matthew Galt, and this is cyber billionaires these days, am I right? |
0:32.1 | It just seems like none of them want to stick around. |
0:34.8 | Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are looking into outer space. |
0:38.4 | Mark Zuckerberg and John Carmack are looking into the inner space of virtual reality. So many of them are buying up land |
0:43.5 | and luxury survival bunkers in New Zealand. It's hard to keep track. Do they know something that we |
0:48.6 | don't? Or do they just have the money to act on the fears that they themselves were instrumental |
0:53.5 | in creating. |
0:55.2 | Here today, to help me answer that question, is Douglas Rushkoff. |
0:59.0 | Rushkoff is a media theorist, author, and spiritual precursor to the Whole Motherboard Project. |
1:04.9 | He's just written a new book that's out on September 6th, Survival of the Richest Escape |
1:09.5 | Fantasies of Tech Billionaires. Sir, thank you so much |
1:13.4 | for coming on to cyber. Oh, thanks for having me. Thanks for doing cyber. Um, so the laying out |
1:22.5 | the laying out the groundwork for this book is a story that you tell of being summoned to come out and talk to rich |
1:30.3 | people. Can you, can you give me that story? Yeah. It's funny because this story was like the |
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