How Billionaires Are Preparing For Doomsday - Douglas Rushkoff | Modern Wisdom Podcast 557

Douglas Rushkoff is an American 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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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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