Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behindLast 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 – about half my annual professor’s salary – all to deliver some insight on the subject of “the future of technology”.I’ve never liked talking about the future.