
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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Demigod Wannabes
Published on: 29 Nov 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Kibbitz Room XII
Published on: 22 Nov 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Jem Bendell
Published on: 15 Nov 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Nora Bateson
Published on: 8 Nov 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Mitch Horowitz – Team Human Live in NYC
Published on: 1 Nov 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Leaving X and Social Media Behind
Published on: 25 Oct 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Rushkoff on TIME’s Person of the Week
Published on: 21 Oct 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Andrea Chalupa
Published on: 18 Oct 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
A Message from Douglas
Published on: 11 Oct 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Dennis Yi Tenen
Published on: 4 Oct 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Maggie Jackson
Published on: 28 Sep 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Kibbitz Room XI
Published on: 20 Sep 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Kevin Slavin
Published on: 13 Sep 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Naomi Klein
Published on: 6 Sep 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Madeline Ashby
Published on: 30 Aug 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Paul Austin
Published on: 23 Aug 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Kibbitz Room X
Published on: 16 Aug 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Émile P. Torres
Published on: 9 Aug 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
David Brin
Published on: 2 Aug 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson w/ Gabriel Kennedy
Published on: 26 Jul 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Rushkoff on TrueAnon: Bloodless Hype Machines
Published on: 24 Jul 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Kibbitz Room VIIII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Published on: 19 Jul 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Nika Roza Danilova
Published on: 12 Jul 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Annie Kelly
Published on: 5 Jul 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Thomas Negovan
Published on: 28 Jun 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Kibbitz Room VIII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Published on: 22 Jun 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Gary Marcus
Published on: 14 Jun 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff: I Will Not Be Autotuned – Live from All Tech is Human’s Responsible Tech Mixer
Published on: 7 Jun 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Malcolm Harris
Published on: 2 Jun 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Fenton Bailey
Published on: 16 May 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Kibbitz Room VII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Published on: 8 May 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Rex Weyler
Published on: 24 Apr 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Claire Leibowicz, Justin Hendrix, John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff – live at Betaworks
Published on: 14 Apr 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Marina Gorbis & Jerry Davis
Published on: 30 Mar 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Alissa Quart
Published on: 20 Mar 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Published on: 7 Mar 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Alex Holland
Published on: 23 Feb 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Jeff Emmett
Published on: 15 Feb 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Micah Sifry
Published on: 10 Feb 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Published on: 26 Jan 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Jessamyn West
Published on: 11 Jan 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Mitch Horowitz
Published on: 4 Jan 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Infectious Altruism – Holiday Special
Published on: 24 Dec 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Kibbitz Room IV live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Published on: 21 Dec 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Molly White
Published on: 14 Dec 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Eric Zimmerman
Published on: 1 Dec 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Noah Hutton
Published on: 23 Nov 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Cory Doctorow
Published on: 16 Nov 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Surviving Apocalyptic Economics w/ Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin – Live from Ottawa International Writers Festival
Published on: 9 Nov 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
Greg Barris
Published on: 3 Nov 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast
by Douglas Rushkoff
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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