04235cam a2200445 i 4500 22664842 BJBSDDR 20250324152615.0 ta 220624s2022 nyu b 000 0 eng 2022027182 9780393881066 (hbk.) 0393881067 (hbk.) 9780393881073 (epub) DLC eng rda DLC DLC eng pcc T 14.5 R953s 2022 303.48/3 Rushkoff, Douglas, 1961- 12468 Survival of the richest : escape fantasies of the tech billionaires / Douglas Rushkoff. First edition. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022. 212 pages ; 22 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Meet 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 "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"-- Provided by publisher. Technology and civilization Moral and ethical aspects. Tecnología y civilización Aspectos morales y éticos 41321 Survivalism Moral and ethical aspects. Billionaires Conduct of life. Multimillonarios Conducta de vida 41322 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK dpf 122890 122890 0 0 lcc 0 0 CT BJB BJB HU 2025-02-25 0 T 14.5 R953s 2022 00000173370 2025-02-25 00:00:00 1 2025-02-25 BK