
From Douglas’ Website:
Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Team Human, based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.
Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media,” “screenagers,” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice.
He a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. He is a columnist for Medium, and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen.
From Wikipedia:
Douglas is also known for his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems.
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Kibbitz Room II live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
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Kibbitz Room live from the Virtual Apocalypse Bunker
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Philip Rosedale
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Lisa Lovebucket
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Nick Kroll
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A Closer Look at Cyberia (KOPB, 1994) – Preview
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Micah Sifry
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Cyber Salon 2002 – Preview
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Hannah Close
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Ari Wallach
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Mark Stahlman
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Douglas Rushkoff “Religion As Open-Source Proposition” – Preview
Published on: 16 Mar 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
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Laurie Segall
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David McRaney
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Douglas Rushkoff “Open-Source Reality” – Preview
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Jamie Cohen
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Unfinished Live “A Better Web is Possible: How Do We Make it Happen?” – Preview
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Published on: 20 Oct 21 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
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Ryan Broderick
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The Yes Men on Newsmax – Preview
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Richard Heinberg
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Published on: 8 Sep 21 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
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Irwin Kula
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Special Report: Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum Pranks Newsmax
Published on: 23 Aug 21 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
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Sarah Pessin
Published on: 18 Aug 21 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
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Jeremy Lent Salon – Preview
Published on: 11 Aug 21 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
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Naomi Klein
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Team Human is a manifesto―a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together―not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once a means of exchange, is now a means of exploitation; education, conceived as a way to elevate the working class, has become another assembly line; and the internet has only further divided us into increasingly atomized and radicalized groups.
Team Human delivers a call to arms. If we are to resist and survive these destructive forces, we must recognize that being human is a team sport. In Rushkoff’s own words: “Being social may be the whole point.” Harnessing wide-ranging research on human evolution, biology, and psychology, Rushkoff shows that when we work together we realize greater happiness, productivity, and peace. If we can find the others who understand this fundamental truth and reassert our humanity―together―we can make the world a better place to be human.
The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is essentially beside the point: It’s here; it’s everywhere. The real question is, do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it? “Choose the former,” writes Rushkoff, “and you gain access to the control panel of civilization. Choose the latter, and it could be the last real choice you get to make.”
In ten chapters, composed of ten “commands” accompanied by original illustrations from comic artist Leland Purvis, in Program or Be Programmed, Rushkoff provides cyber enthusiasts and technophobes alike with the guidelines to navigate this new universe.
In this spirited, accessible poetics of new media, Rushkoff picks up where Marshall McLuhan left off, helping readers come to recognize programming as the new literacy of the digital age––and as a template through which to see beyond social conventions and power structures that have vexed us for centuries. This is a friendly little book with a big and actionable message.
People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future’s arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this “now” is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.
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