The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

Image caption: Time to bunker down… if you’ve got the cash. Photo credit: Terravivos / Observer Design. Article by Douglas Rushkoff. The Guardian – September 4, 2022. This is an edited extract from “Survival of the Richest” by Douglas Rushkoff, published by Scribe (£20).

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

As a humanist who writes about the impact of digital technology on our lives, I am often mistaken for a futurist. The people most interested in hiring me for my opinions about technology are usually less concerned with building tools that help people live better lives in the present than they are in identifying the Next Big Thing through which to dominate them in the future. I don’t usually respond to their inquiries. Why help these guys ruin what’s left of the internet, much less civilisation? […]

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