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The Latest Breaking News from Douglas Rushkoff

Apocalypse now? Why tech billionaires are suddenly hoarding doomsday mega-bunkers: ‘Don’t take the stripper poles out’

IN FOCUS: The world’s elite are convinced ‘The Event’ is coming. Holly Baxter meets the builders to whom they entrust their greatest fears ... and desires

The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2025

The ultra-rich want to escape. Good idea

Billionaires are building luxury getaways to hide from civilization’s collapse. Cool. We’re better off without them

Salon · Feb 16, 2025

Can psychedelics treat narcissism?

Psychedelics have a reputation for humbling people, but "hallucinogenic elitism" is also common. What gives?

Salon · Mar 8, 2024

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Mark Zuckerberg’s controversial £212 million Hawai’i compound includes reports of vast underground bunker

Zuckerberg's top secret project reportedly includes a 5,000-square-foot underground lair

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2023

These billionaire preppers are planning for the apocalypse. Here's why

This professor was invited to speak at a meeting of billionaire preppers. It got weird.

ABC News · Oct 19, 2022

Jean Guerrero: I once fell for the fantasy of uploading ourselves. It's a dangerous myth

The fantasy began to consume me at the turn of the millennium.

Los Angeles Times · Oct 11, 2022

Doomsday bunkers, Mars and 'The Mindset': the tech bros trying to outsmart the end of the world

Douglas Rushkoff’s newest book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, grew out of a brilliant 2018 Medium article of the same name, which went viral and had people (aka his US editor) clamouring for a full-length treatment.

The Conversation · Oct 3, 2022

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