Unlike their forebears, contemporary billionaires do not hope to build the biggest house in town, but the biggest colony on the moon, Today’s billionaire philanthropists, frequently espousing the philosophy of “effective altruism”, donate to their own organisations, often in the form of their own stock, and make their own decisions about how the money is…
Douglas Rushkoff ,in his new book Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, alerts us to this disturbing phenomenon of our decade - the influence of those super-wealthy individuals - Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel. Rushkoff explains the extraordinary breadth and power of these men.…
Scientists and artists share a curiosity about the world around them, but do the similarities end there? Scientists and artists share a curiosity about the world around them, but do the similarities end there?