Survival of the Richest:
escape fantasies of the tech billionaires

£10.99 GBP

Survival of the Richest:
escape fantasies of the tech billionaires

Overview

‘A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and enraging read.’ Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. 

When Douglas Rushkoff was summoned to the desert to a private talk for the rich and powerful, he learned about ‘The Mindset’: a theory that inevitable societal catastrophe can be evaded by individuals with enough money and the right technology. Here, Rushkoff traces the evolution of The Mindset through its origins in science and technology to its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, and the Metaverse. This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend the landscape The Mindset has created — a world alive with algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies — and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human interdependency. 

Details

Format
Paperback
Size
198mm x 129mm
Extent
224 pages
ISBN
9781915590244
RRP
GBP£10.99
Pub date
9 November 2023

Praise

‘A tremendous story … the big takeaway is clear: your bunker won’t save you. Time to make nice with the butler.’

Hugo RifkindThe Times

‘Douglas Rushkoff has always been a singular observer and thinker. Embedded near the epicentres of the digital revolution from its hopeful outlaw start through the oppressive mega-corporate current condition, he has never flinched along the way from honestly delivering fresh, radical, humane critiques of the emerging world. There are plenty of books decrying the horrors of 21st-century monopoly capitalism and inequality, and the existential threats posed by technology and hell-bent growth, but none quite like Survival of the Richest. Rushkoff is essential — not just a passionate visionary on the side of the angels, but the rare one who can write.’

Kurt Andersen, author of Evil Geniuses
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About the Author

Douglas Rushkoff is professor of media theory and digital economics at Queens College, City University of New York. Named one of the world’s ten most influential intellectuals by MIT, he hosts the Team Human podcast and has written many award-winning books. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

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