Sách - Survival of the Richest - escape fantasies of the tech billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff (UK edition, paperback)

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Publisher: Independent Alliance

Origin: United Kingdom (Imported)

ISBN 13: 9781914484704

Condition: Brandnew

Binding: paperback

Pages: 224

Dimensons: 198 x 129 x 16 | 400 (gram)

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.

• Award-winning author and master cultural analyst and forecaster, Douglas Rushkoff, investigates how the super rich are planning to leave us all behind, come the apocalypse.
• Had some great review coverage in hardback across all the broadsheets, ideal for readers of Michael Lewis Steven Pinker, and Daniel Kahneman.

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

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‘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.’

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‘Douglas Rushkoff’s disguise as an “influential futurist” has enabled him to serve as a mole on behalf of our species in the lair of the wannabe-posthuman. His report is both fierce and amazed in the face of capitalism’s delusions; I for one am sharpening my pitchfork.’

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‘A wake-up call to those of us without underground bunkers or peninsulas in New Zealand to take note of where the 0.001 per cent think the world is heading … This book is a digital version of Dickens’s Hard Times, full of hoo-clad Gradgrinds failing to see the value of the messiness in humanity.’

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‘Well worth reading.’

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‘Rushkoff gives us a sober, scathing oddsmaking on the recursive wager of the ultra-rich: that they can insulate themselves from the world they’re creating.’

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‘A hilarious and lacerating look at the elite sociopathy wrecking the world, and a call to arms for how the rest of us can fight it.’

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‘With razor-sharp insight, Rushkoff unwraps the dazzling facade of the technological dream, revealing the alarming Mindset that underlies promises of planetary salvation.’

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‘Beyond eye-opening, this book is eye-popping. A master storyteller, Rushkoff brings to life perhaps the greatest challenge of our time, The Mindset that drives so much destructive behaviour, and blinds us to solutions beyond new technology and consumption. A must read.’

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‘Survival of the Richest is more than a primer on a soulless world view pervading all aspects of life. Defying fantasies of escape — from each other, from earthliness, from Earth — Rushkoff offers something at once more realistic and more imaginative: mutual regard, responsibility, and flourishing. In so doing, he mounts an impassioned defence of everything and everyone marked expendable in the fanatical pursuit of a blank slate.’

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‘Douglas Rushkoff’s keen eye as a seasoned media analyst, combined with his flair and wit as a writer and a performer, shine in this book … How is it possible that people who have powerfully shaped our society and economy and have reaped enormous financial rewards in the process are doing everything possible to escape the world they’ve created? … This should give us all pause — if they want to escape their creations, why give them the power to rule our lives in the first place?’

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‘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.’

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