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theguardian.com
Silicon Valleys elite are hatching plans to escape disaster and when it comes, theyll leave the rest of us behind.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity
klook
(12,155 posts)What a pathetically puny vision. These supposed geniuses have no more imagination than hack science fiction writers of the 1950s.
Further proof that billionaires are a drag on society.
irisblue
(32,974 posts)".. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers if that technology could be developed in time."...
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)which never gets old
klook
(12,155 posts)ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)they may find that they need their fellow humans, but it will be too late.