Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff

Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics, Queens College, CUNY

Douglas Rushkoff is the host of the Team Human podcast and a professor of digital economics at CUNY/Queens. He is also the author of a dozen bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, Media Virus, and Team Human, the last of which is his latest work.

Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
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Continuing the countdown, Big Think's seventh most popular video of 2019 explains why universal basic income will hurt the 99%, and make the 1% even richer.
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Here's why universal basic income will hurt the 99%, and make the 1% even richer.
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Algorithms and propagandists exploit the human instinct to connect to play us.
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Upload your mind? Here's a reality check on the Singularity.