{"product_id":"survivla-of-the-richest-135184-1","title":"Survivla of the richest","description":"Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the ''Event'': the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley-style certainty that they and their cohort can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own making-as long as they have enough money and the right technology. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. In a dozen urgent, electrifying chapters, he confronts tech utopianism, the datafication of all human interaction, and the exploitation of that data by corporations. Through fascinating characters-master programmers who want to remake the world from scratch as if   redesigning a video game and bankers who return from Burning Man convinced that incentivized capitalism is the solution to environmental disasters-Rushkoff     explains why those with the most power to change our current trajectory have no interest in doing so. And he shows how recent forms of anti-mainstream          rebellion-QAnon, for example, or meme stocks-reinforce the same destructive     order. This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend the  landscape The Mindset created-a world alive with algorithms and intelligences   actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies-and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human interdependency. In a thundering conclusion, Survival of the     Richest argues that the only way to survive the coming catastrophe is to ensure it doesn't happen in the first place.","brand":"Hartnell College Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48055220764907,"sku":"026386076","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0820\/8488\/8811\/files\/9780393881066.jpg?v=1775603765","url":"https:\/\/hartnellcc.bkstr.com\/products\/survivla-of-the-richest-135184-1","provider":"Hartnell College Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}