Time to bunker down… if you’ve got the cash. Photograph: Terravivos/Observer Design
The Guardian: The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
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?
Still, sometimes a combination of morbid curiosity and cold hard cash is enough to get me on a stage in front of the tech elite, where I try to talk some sense into them about how their businesses are affecting our lives out here in the real world. That’s how I found myself accepting an invitation to address a group mysteriously described as “ultra-wealthy stakeholders”, out in the middle of the desert.
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WNU Editor: The super-rich preparing for the end of the world is nothing new. Check out this 2017 article .... Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (New Yorker).
But it is not only the super-rich that are making plans to save themselves from the apocalypse. The biggest preppers in the world are governments, and they have been going all-out to prepare for a worst case scenario for years .... 5 Apocalyptic Scenarios Governments Have Attempted to Address (Interesting Engineering).
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