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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.
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Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
I was just fascinated watching these guys doing coding during the day and scraping peyote off cactuses at night and going to raves until morning.
The easiest way to get Americans, in particular, onboard programming is by frightening the bejesus out of them.
We have not used the net to promote the kind of peer-to-peer economy that challenged feudalism in the 1100s and 1200s.
We are testing what it is like to lose privacy now because if the species survives, we’ll develop a capability to not be embarrassed anymore.