Douglas Ruskhkoff, the Survival of the Richest and... the Battle of Endor?

A common theme on this podcast is the future, and the visions of the future that a certain set of Silicon Valley tech and venture accelerationists are working hard to advance. Today we’re going to hear from author and scholar Douglas Rushkoff about his latest book-https://wwnorton.com/books/survival-of-the-richest (Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires)- which lampoons and deflates these characters, offering instead a humanist approach to defining the future by how we comport ourselves in the present.