<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);font-family:medium-content-serif-font,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:21px;letter-spacing:-0.063px">"They were amused by my optimism, but they didn’t really buy it. They were not interested in how to avoid a calamity; they’re convinced we are too far gone. For all their wealth and power, they don’t believe they can affect the future. They are simply accepting the darkest of all scenarios and then bringing whatever money and technology they can employ to insulate themselves — especially if they can’t get a seat on the rocket to Mars.</span> "</div><div>
<p name="9097" id="gmail-9097" class="gmail-graf gmail-graf--p gmail-graf-after--p" style="margin:29px 0px 0px;font-family:medium-content-serif-font,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.58;letter-spacing:-0.003em;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">"Luckily, those of us without the funding to consider disowning our own humanity have much better options available to us. We don’t have to use technology in such antisocial, atomizing ways. We can become the individual consumers and profiles that our devices and platforms want us to be, or we can remember that the truly evolved human doesn’t go it alone."</p><p name="c984" id="gmail-c984" class="gmail-graf gmail-graf--p gmail-graf-after--p gmail-graf--trailing" style="margin:29px 0px 0px;font-family:medium-content-serif-font,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.58;letter-spacing:-0.003em;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span class="gmail-markup--quote gmail-markup--p-quote gmail-is-other" name="anon_81d824aff01d" style="background-color:transparent">"Being human is not about individual survival or escape. It’s a team sport. Whatever future humans have, it will be together."</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:large;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><a href="https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1">https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1</a></span>
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