Berto Jongman: Douglas Rushkoff on Elite Plans for Surviving “The Event”
How tech’s richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape.
Doug Rushkoff: Silicon Valley — Amazon, Google, and Uber Specifically — Is Broken
Silicon Valley is broken and heading for social unrest, argues media theorist Rushkoff argues that several major tech companies operate with intentionally unsustainable business models. Amazon and Uber, he says, work by destroying marketplaces and then using their leverage to move into another area. So while Amazon doesn’t make much money off books, the original …
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Douglas Rushkoff: The Manfunctioning Tech Economy
THE GUARDIAN: THE MALFUNCTIONING TECH ECONOMY His latest book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, is published by Portfolio Penguin on 3 March. Read full interview.
Doug Rushkoff: How Digital Media Finally Enables Distributed Enterprise
Platform Cooperativism, hosted by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider, the closing keynote, a first effort at expressing the gist of my upcoming book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, in 40 minutes of speaking.So here’s the video of that talk. This may be the only talk where I try to include everything, and I think it’s …
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Doug Rushkoff: How Technology Killed the Future
How Technology Killed the Future Presidents—and the rest of us—can’t get anything done anymore. By DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF January 15, 2014 EXTRACT This new paradigm is fundamentally scrambling our politics. Our leaders’ ability to articulate goals, organize movements or even approach long-term solutions has been stymied by an obsession—on their part and ours—with the now. Unless …
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Doug Rushkoff on CNN: Edward Snowden is a hero — uncovering the MACHINE
Editor’s note: Douglas Rushkoff writes a regular column for CNN.com. He is a media theorist and the author of the new book “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now.” (CNN) — When I was a kid, I remember a guy named Daniel Ellsberg leaking some classified documents to the New York Times about the Vietnam War …
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Doug Rushkoff: Present Shock – When Everything Happens Now
Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist and the bestselling author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now. His earlier books include Life Inc, Program or Be Programmed, and Media Virus. He made the PBS Frontline documentaries The Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation, and speaks around the world about media, technology, and change. …
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