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.

5 min
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.
5 min
Here's why universal basic income will hurt the 99%, and make the 1% even richer.
5 min
Algorithms and propagandists exploit the human instinct to connect to play us.
5 min
Upload your mind? Here's a reality check on the Singularity.
10 min
Groundbreaking digital companies like Google, Amazon, and Uber operate using a "scorched Earth" method of value creation, says Rushkoff, which resembles 13th century colonialism.