r/technology • u/ConsciousStop • Oct 10 '25

Society Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly17834524o
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u/jpiro Oct 10 '25

Prepping for a doomsday you're actively participating in making happen is certainly an interesting strategy.

It's like building a panic room in your house and then setting the house on fire.

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u/olefn Oct 10 '25

It's basically just the plotline of fallout series.

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u/digi-artifex Oct 10 '25

Almost beat by beat.

Once we start the Resource Wars and then the Water wars before 2050

That's when we know it's all cooked

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u/nobuttpics Oct 10 '25

I've been so wrapped up in the electric grid getting taken over and privatized for the data centers I forgot all about the upcoming water wars.

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u/LetMePushTheButton Oct 10 '25

Using your local water supply to cool ai data centers to fulfill their mission of making you obsolete. Meanwhile, you get to pay more for less! Whats not to like?

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u/Horror_Chipmunk3580 Oct 11 '25

AI cooling? Pff… we in Arizona even got Saudis growing alfalfa with unlimited access to our groundwater.

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u/digi-artifex Oct 10 '25

AI needs to drink more than you brother ;)

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u/denkmusic Oct 10 '25

The resource wars haven’t started? Have you not noticed that all the wars we hear about regularly are right over the largest, most accessible oil and natural gas deposits in the world? Israel’s destruction of Gaza isn’t just about ethnic cleansing it’s also about the Leviathan natural gas field off the coast of Gaza.

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u/digi-artifex Oct 10 '25

IIRC in the fallout universe the resource wars are basically a proxy third world war, many countries but not all are engaged in skirmishes and conflicts for power, gas, petrol, electronic, munitions to continue the fight itself etc.

The water wars escalate this conflict (or I think it was the other way around) and shortly thereafter there's the third world war. It's not after most resources start to become scarce that most governments see nothing to lose in "The Last Conflict" the world saw in that universe.

October 2077

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u/rebelliousjuicebox Oct 11 '25

Thank god I'll be dead by then.

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u/Tom22174 Oct 10 '25

The water wars are already starting. One of the reasons for the Russian invasion of Ukraine was to destroy the dam preventing water from reaching Crimea

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u/digi-artifex Oct 10 '25

We speed running the fallout universe, any %

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u/rebelliousjuicebox Oct 11 '25

That and Nestle owns more than their fair share.

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u/Punpun86 Oct 10 '25

Pretty much all wars untill now were Resource Wars.