Billionaires are building bunkers and buying islands. But are they prepping for the apocalypse – or pioneering a new feudalism?
- Written by: Katherine Guinness, Lecturer in Art History, The University of Queensland
In December 2023, WIRED reported that Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire CEO of Meta and one of the foremost architects of today’s social-media-dominated world, has been buying up large swathes of the Hawaiian island Kauai.
Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are constructing a gigantic compound – known as Ko’olau Ranch –...
