03762cam a2200385 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000250009502000220012002000260014204000280016804100080019604200080020405000230021208200130023510000310024824500940027925000190037326400560039230000240044833600260047233700280049833800270052650400410055350506560059452018820125065000600313265000650319265000440325765000350330165000400333622664842BJBSDDR20250324152615.0ta220624s2022    nyu      b    000 0 eng    a  2022027182  a9780393881066 (hbk.)  a0393881067 (hbk.)  z9780393881073q(epub)  aDLCbengerdacDLCdDLC  aeng  apcc14aT 14.5bR953s 202200a303.48/31 aRushkoff, Douglas, d1961-10aSurvival of the richest :bescape fantasies of the tech billionaires /cDouglas Rushkoff.  aFirst edition. 1aNew York, NY :bW.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,c2022.  a212 pages ;c22 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references.0 aMeet The Mindset
The insulation equation: Billionaire bunker strategies
Mergers and acquisitions: Always have an exit strategy
A womb with a view: You are safe in your techno-bubble
The dumbwaiter effect: Out of sight, out of mind
Selfish genes: Scientism over morality
Pedal to the metal: Dehumanize, dominate, and extract
Exponential: When you can go no further, go Meta
Persuasive tech: If you could just push a button
Visions from Burning Man: We are as gods
The great reset: To save the world, save capitalism
The mindset in the mirror: Resistance is futile
Cybernetic karma: Hoisted by their own petard
Pattern recognition: Everything comes back  a"The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. 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. 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. 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"--cProvided by publisher. 0aTechnology and civilizationxMoral and ethical aspects. 4aTecnología y civilización xAspectos morales y éticos  0aSurvivalismxMoral and ethical aspects. 0aBillionairesxConduct of life. 4aMultimillonarios xConducta de vida