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For media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, the glossy promises of a silicon-powered utopia are little more than a smokescreen for an elitist exit strategy. Rushkoff, a professor of media theory and digital economics at Queens College/CUNY, and the author of Survival of the Richest and Team Human, made the remarks during a recent interview on the Repatterning Podcast with host Arden Leigh. In the interview, he offered a scathing critique of the tech billionaire class, arguing that those evangelizing ar...