The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods

“There’s no Dropbox plan that will let us upload body and soul to the cloud. We are still here on the ground, with the same people and on the same planet we are being encouraged to leave behind.” Author and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff asks: how much are we allowed to use technology and our wealth to isolate ourselves from the pandemic and the troubles of our world?

Source: OneZero
Published: Sep 1, 2020
Length: 9 minutes (2,401 words)