{"id":80405,"date":"2018-07-06T03:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T10:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/survival-of-the-richest"},"modified":"2018-07-06T03:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T10:02:21","slug":"survival-of-the-richest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/survival-of-the-richest","title":{"rendered":"Survival of the Richest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/survival-of-the-richest.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk \u2014 about half my annual professor\u2019s salary \u2014 all to deliver some insight on the subject of \u201cthe future of technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never liked talking about the future. The Q&amp;A sessions always end up more like parlor games, where I\u2019m asked to opine on the latest technology buzzwords as if they were ticker symbols for potential investments: blockchain, 3D printing, CRISPR. The audiences are rarely interested in learning about these technologies or their potential impacts beyond the binary choice of whether or not to invest in them. But money talks, so I took the gig.<\/p>\n<p>After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys \u2014 yes, all men \u2014 from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world. After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology. They had come with questions of their own.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/futurehuman\/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1\">https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/futurehuman\/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk \u2014 about half my annual professor\u2019s salary \u2014 all to deliver some insight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1318,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-bitcoin","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}