Podcasts about digital economics

If there's a Marshall McLuhan for our digital age, then it might be the much published media theorist Douglas Rushoff. One of the founding evangelists of the digital revolution, Rushkoff then became one of the earliest critics of its increasingly market-driven and monopolistic forces. But now, as the zeitgeist has sharply shifted against the digital revolution, Rushkoff has become cautiously optimistic about the potential of AI to improve the world. As he told me when we talked recently in New York City, AI might be what he called “the first native app for the internet”. I'm not exactly sure what this McLuhanesque message means, but it does suggest that today's AI media revolution might not be quite as dismal as most of us fear.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 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast, and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at 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 serves as 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.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Douglas Rushkoff has spent the last thirty years studying how digital technologies have shaped our world. The renowned media theorist is the author of twenty books, the host of the Team Human podcast, and a professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at City University of New York. But when I sat down with him, he didn't seem all that excited to be talking about AI. Instead, he suggested – I think only half jokingly – that he'd rather be talking about the new reboot of Dexter.Rushkoff's lack of enthusiasm around AI may stem from the fact that he doesn't see it as the ground shifting technology that some do. Rather, he sees generative artificial intelligence as just the latest in a long line of communication technologies – more akin to radio or television than fire or electricity.But while he may not believe that artificial intelligence is going to bring about some kind of techno-utopia, he does think its impact will be significant. So eventually we did talk about AI. And we ended up having an incredibly lively conversation about whether computers can create real art, how the “California ideology” has shaped artificial intelligence, and why it's not too late to ensure that technology is enabling human flourishing – not eroding it.Mentioned:“Cyberia” by Douglas Rushkoff“The Original WIRED Manifesto” by Louis Rossetto“The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020″ by Peter Schwartz and Peter Leyden“Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires” by Douglas Rushkoff“Artificial Creativity: How AI teaches us to distinguish between humans, art, and industry” by Douglas Rushkoff” by Douglas Rushkoff“Empirical Science Began as a Domination Fantasy” by Douglas Rushkoff“A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” by John Perry Barlow“The Californian Ideology” by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron“Can AI Bring Humanity Back to Health Care?,” Machines Like Us Episode 5Further Reading:“The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects” by Marshall McLuhan“Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology” by Neil Postman“Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman

Jim talks with Douglas Rushkoff about the ideas in his podcast monologue/Substack post "Why I'm Finally Leaving X and Probably All Social Media." They discuss Douglas's history with social media, the early social internet, Facebook's parasitism of legacy news, the decontextualization of content, The WELL, owning your own words, leaving Facebook in 2013, Jim's social media sabbaticals, the opportunity to create an info agent, the number of daily interruptions, attention-deficit disorder as an adaptive strategy, books versus articles, effects of long-term social media use, the quest for nominal identity, how careful curation improves X, using social media as a professional writer, the organic in-between, strong vs weak social links, the ability of strong links to hold & metabolize, how the internet spawns billionaires, airline subsidies, Girardian mimesis, liberal universal humanism, rebuilding embodied life at the Dunbar number, John Vervaeke's "religion that is not a religion," starting where you are, and much more. Episode Transcript "Why I'm Finally Leaving X and Probably All Social Media," by Douglas Rushkoff Team Human, by Douglas Rushkoff Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, by Douglas Rushkoff The WELL JRS EP30 - Nora Bateson on Complexity & the Transcontextual JRS EP 184 - Dave Snowden on Managing Complexity in Times of Crisis JRS EP 190 - Peter Turchin on Cliodynamics and End Times JRS EP 170 - John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall on The Religion That Is Not a Religion 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 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast, and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at 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 is 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.

EPISODE 1639: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the prolific futurist and tech critic, Douglas Rushkoff, about the false promises of social media and our need to engage with what he calls "reality reality" 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 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast, and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at 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 serves as 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. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

De que maneira a Economia Digital difere das outras Economias?É o tal ‘papão' que nos vai engolir, ou tem trazido vantagens importantes?E, ao nível da inovação, que mudanças implementou a nível global?Será que o mundo ficou mais ‘pequeno': será que, através dela, negócios e pessoas podem agora estar mais próximos? O economista Hugo Figueiredo tem uma perspetiva otimista acerca da Economia Digital e vai explicá-la com clareza ao Hugo van der Ding. Neste episódio, vai-se falar de como a Economia Digital permitiu reduzir custos de mobilidade e favoreceu negócios de aglomeração (o famoso ‘Bundling'). De como se abriu a possibilidade de se poder trabalhar de qualquer parte do mundo para todas as partes dele. Das empresas ‘superestrela' e da criação de novos mercados. Bem-vindo ao futuro do nosso presente.REFERÊNCIAS E LINKS ÚTEISEconomia Digital:Goldfarb, Avi, and Catherine Tucker. 2019. "Digital Economics." Journal of Economic Literature, 57 (1): 3-43.Economia da Inteligência ArtificialAgrawal, A., Gans, J., & Goldfarb, A. (2016). The simple economics of machine intelligence. Harvard Business Review, 17(1), 2-5.Agrawal, A., Gans, J., & Goldfarb, A. (2019). Economic policy for artificial intelligence. Innovation policy and the economy, 19(1), 139-159.Agrawal, A., Gans, J., & Goldfarb, A. (2018). Prediction machines: the simple economics of artificial intelligence. Harvard Business Press.Plataformas:Spulber, D. F. (2019). The economics of markets and platforms. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 28(1), 159-172.Belleflamme, P., & Peitz, M. (2021). The Economics of Platforms. Cambridge University Press.Tecnologias Digitais e o Paradoxo da Produtividade:Brynjolfsson, E., Rock, D., & Syverson, C. (2018). Artificial intelligence and the modern productivity paradox: A clash of expectations and statistics. In The economics of artificial intelligence: An agenda (pp. 23-57). University of Chicago Press. Gordon, R. (2013). The death of innovation, the end of growth [Video]. TED Conferences.Brynjolfson, E. (2013). The key to growth? Race with the machines[Video]. TED Conferences.BIOSHUGO VAN DER DINGHugo van der Ding é muitas personagens. Locutor, criativo e desenhador acidental. Uma espécie de cartunista de sucesso instantâneo a quem bastou uma caneta Bic, uma boa ideia e uma folha em branco. Criador de personagens digitais de sucesso como a Criada Malcriada e Cavaca a Presidenta, também autor de um dos podcasts mais ouvidos em Portugal, Vamos Todos Morrer, podemos encontrá-lo, ou melhor ouvi-lo, todas as manhãs na Antena 3 ou por detrás dos bonecos que nos surgem todos os dias por aqui e ali. HUGO FIGUEIREDOÉ professor de Economia na Universidade de Aveiro, investigador do CIPES - Centro de Investigação em Políticas do Ensino Superior e colaborador do GOVCOPP – Unidade de Investigação em Governança, Competitividade e Políticas Públicas. É licenciado em Economia pela Universidade do Porto e doutorado em Ciências Empresariais pela Universidade de Manchester. Os seus interesses de investigação centram-se nas áreas da economia do trabalho, da educação e do ensino superior.

In this installment of The Legacy of Lies Series - ORRA has an in-depth discussion with Chaabar, Tysre and Shamiwan about the sudden murders of big tech founders, currency changes around the world, the plans behind the scenes regarding crypto currencies and many other things that are molding the way the world will be exchanging currency. Welcome to the Network of Awareness Podcast Radio Show! Follow us at : https://networkofawareness.com/ We're grateful for your support and are working diligently to provide our listeners with valuable information, that can assist in developing a greater sense of Social & Self Awareness in our ever-changing Societies & Cultures. If you would like to donate and support our show please choose one of the links below: https://cash.app/$NetworkofAwareness https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/networkofawareness?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US NOA Social Media Links: https://www.spreaker.com/show/network-of-awareness https://twitter.com/orra_noa https://www.youtube.com/@ORRA_THE_INFORMATIONALIST https://www.instagram.com/networkofawareness.com1/ https://www.tiktok.com/@orra_informationalist https://www.facebook.com/networkofawareness.com1/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090538384661 All praises to our creator the Most High which inspires the very best in us! "When you live in the present, there's always an opportunity for a new beginning." - ORRA https://thecouncilonchristrelations.com/

In this installment of The Legacy of Lies Series - ORRA has an in-depth discussion with Chaabar, Tysre and Shamiwan about the sudden murders of big tech founders, currency changes around the world, the plans behind the scenes regarding crypto currencies and many other things that are molding the way the world will be exchanging currency. Welcome to the Network of Awareness Podcast Radio Show! Follow us at : https://networkofawareness.com/ We're grateful for your support and are working diligently to provide our listeners with valuable information, that can assist in developing a greater sense of Social & Self Awareness in our ever-changing Societies & Cultures. If you would like to donate and support our show please choose one of the links below: https://cash.app/$NetworkofAwareness https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/networkofawareness?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US NOA Social Media Links: https://www.spreaker.com/show/network-of-awareness https://twitter.com/orra_noa https://www.youtube.com/@ORRA_THE_INFORMATIONALIST https://www.instagram.com/networkofawareness.com1/ https://www.tiktok.com/@orra_informationalist https://www.facebook.com/networkofawareness.com1/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090538384661 All praises to our creator the Most High which inspires the very best in us! "When you live in the present, there's always an opportunity for a new beginning." - ORRA https://thecouncilonchristrelations.com/

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 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast, and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at 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 serves as 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.

Today on the show, we've brought on Douglas Rushkoff to talk about his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. Douglas is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at Queens/CUNY and a research fellow at the Institute for the Future. Named one of the world's ten most influential intellectuals by MIT, he hosts the Team Human podcast and has written many award-winning books including: Team Human, based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus.  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.  In this interview we explore the strange, dark expressions of AI futurism and tech utopianism growing within the billionaire class. Island bunkers, missions to mars, the Metaverse and the impulse to escape in the face of looming climate and social collapse. These are the fantasies of the rich and powerful, but there is an alternative path for humanity, one anchored in mutual aid, disaster collectivism, and human interdependence. We'll explore all of this and more in this episode. Episode credits: Host and exectutive producer: Tom Llewellyn Presenter and editor: Robert Raymond Theme Music: “Meet you on the other side” by Cultivate Beats Make sure to follow The Response on Twitter and Instagram for updates, memes, and more. Our entire catalog of documentaries and interviews can be found at theresponsepodcast.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The Response is a podcast series from Shareable.net exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters  

Jim talks with Douglas Rushkoff about the ideas in his essay series, "What's a Meta For?" They discuss Facebook's renaming to Meta, the semantic web, ChatGPT, a Turing test recalibration period, Rocco's Basilisk, the conversion of the real world into a meta-world, Elon Musk as techno-monarch, the limitations of his understanding of free speech, returning Twitter to the people who use it, Zuckerberg's Caesar obsession, Rushkoff's criticisms of GameB, the dangers of an abstracted "omega point," understanding the complex binding energies of GameA, dominant political isms as a result of industrialism, GameB's schism over personal vs institutional change, the need to actually deliver, coherent pluralism, what being a member of GameB will mean, dangers of a totalizing narrative, not knowing what GameB is, cultivated insecurity, rejecting the metaverse, GameB's resilient response to critiques, and much more. Episode Transcript Douglas Rushkoff (website) "What's a Meta For?" by Douglas Rushkoff (part 1 and 2) Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, by Douglas Rushkoff JRS Currents 051: Douglas Rushkoff on the Once and Future Internet Character.AI "If I Were CEO of Twitter," by Douglas Rushkoff "The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets," by Joe Lightfoot Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior, by Christopher Boehm The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber & David Wengrow Doomer Optimism JRS Currents 049: Ashley Colby & Jason Snyder on Doomer Optimism 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 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast, and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at 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 is 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.

O convidado deste episódio é Douglas Rushkoff, professor de Teoria da Mídia e Economia Digital. Ele foi nomeado um dos "dez intelectuais mais influentes do mundo" de acordo com o MIT. Ele escreveu e apresentou três premiados documentários da PBS Frontline: The Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders e Digital Nation. Ele é autor de vários livros, incluindo o mais recente: Survival of the richest, Team HUMAN, and Media Virus: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture. Ele também apresenta um podcast chamado Team Human, que é uma inspiração para nós. Neste episódio, ele fala sobre a evolução da internet, tecnologia e sua conexão com a educação. Professor Rushkoff fala sobre seu novo livro, fake news, e a compreensão de que não estamos nos tornando obsoletos com o tempo. Professor Rushkoff abre nossas mentes para a ideia de que a evolução humana é baseada na cooperação, não na competição. Idioma do episódio: Inglês Saiba mais sobre o Instituto para Inovação em Educação: unisinos.br/institutoinovacao __________ Douglas Rushkoff is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. He was named one of the “world's ten most influential intellectuals” according to MIT. He has written and hosted three award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries: The Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He is the author of several books, including his most recent one: Survival of the richest, Team HUMAN, and Media Virus: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture. He also hosts a podcast called Team Human, which is an inspiration to us. In this episode, he talks about the evolution of the internet, technology, and its connection with education. Professor Rushkoff talks about his new book, fake news, and the comprehension that we are nothing becoming obsolete over time. Professor Rushkoff opens our minds to the idea that human evolution is based on cooperation, not competition. Language of the episode: English Learn more about the Institute for Innovation in Education: unisinos.br/institutoinovacao

Douglas Rushkoff is the Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics who MIT named one of the “world's ten most influential intellectuals.” He also hosts the podcast I listen to most, called Team Human. And he's the best-selling author of 20 books, including the new one, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. The publisher's blurb reads: ‘We always knew but now we *know*. The tech elite mean to leave us all behind. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, and the Metaverse.' A big early influence on me, Frances Moore Lappé, said: “Beyond eye-opening, this book is eye-popping. A master story-teller, Rushkoff brings to life perhaps the greatest challenge of our time, The Mindset that drives so much destructive behaviour, and blinds us to solutions beyond new technology and consumption. A must read.” This is a profound and fun journey, firstly into the Mindset, then back out again. For Douglas' book is no dead end, but an opening. Where the billionaire preppers and trans-humanists are ultimately dead ending, the current of life is flowing in a different direction. 0.00 Introduction 3.30 The Mindset! 19.30 Origins of The Mindset 33.00 Getting caught up in The Mindset while trying to ‘fix it' (while exploring family stories and the wonders of epigenetics) 42.30 Douglas' encounter with the Maori and our respective exchanges with Tyson Yunkaporta 53.30 ‘Human' economies and platforms 61.00 If we're the over-culture now … 66.00 A transformative tale in Douglas' life before choosing to start a family 73.00 Music ... This conversation was recorded online, with Douglas at home in New York City on 27 September 2022 (Australian time). Title slide image: Douglas Rushkoff. Music: Regeneration, composed by Amelia Barden, from the soundtrack of the new film Regenerating Australia, available for community screenings now - https://theregenerators.co/regenerating-australia/ Find more: Stay tuned for a special ‘offcuts' extra to this episode, out next week. Read a transcript of our conversation on the episode web page, out shortly – https://www.regennarration.com/ Douglas' website, where you can also pick up the book Survival of the Richest (and others) - https://rushkoff.com/ The Team Human podcast - https://www.teamhuman.fm/ Hear my previous conversation with Douglas on episode 41: ‘Playing for Team Human' - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/041-playing-for-team-human Thanks very much to the generous supporters of this podcast, for making this episode possible. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them to help keep the podcast going. Just head to the website at https://www.regennarration.com/support If you'd like to become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners and receive other benefits, head to the Patreon page at - https://www.patreon.com/RegenNarration Maybe even wave the flag by picking up something from The RegenNarration shop - https://www.regennarration.com/shop You can also support the podcast by sharing an episode with a friend or colleague, or rating or reviewing the podcast. Thanks for your support!

You've probably seen the likes of '2012' or more recently 'Don't Look Up' - disaster movies where there's a race against time to save humanity. Those films also have a common thread: you have a superset of super-rich people looking to buy their way to salvation. Pretty silly stuff, right? But what if we told you those preparations are happening right now, and that there really is no room at the inn for the like of you and me? Douglas Rushkoff is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at the City University of New York, and is the author of over 20 books, the latest of which is called ‘Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires' - he joins Jonathan to discuss.

Welcome to the F23 Podcast another great guest, Douglas Rushkoff. Douglas Rushkoff is the host of the Team Human podcast and author of Team Human as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, Media Virus, and the novel Ecstasy Club. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. We talk Team Human, effective ways of making change, his new book, appreciating what is and find the others. Find Doughttps://rushkoff.com/https://www.teamhuman.fm/OK Comics https://okcomics.co.uk/Find me Twitter & insta @JimthediamondBuy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/jimthediamond66640Theme tune: Daisy Eris Campbell & Tom BakerMusic: Tom Crossland

Renowned media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff offers an in-depth take on the connection between modern-day technology and the problems caused by polarized extremism. On this episode Rushkoff discusses some of the ways our behaviors are shaped by technology and how our behaviors shape technology in return, the best practices for social media, a lack of trust in the news media, when he feels peace, and why he's trying to break the habit of using email.   Rushkoff is an author, professor, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, culture, and institutions create, share and influence each other's values. He is the author of 17 books including the 2019 release Team Human, and he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens.   Go Premium: Members get early access, ad-free episodes, hand-edited transcripts, searchable transcripts, member-only episodes, and more. https://fs.blog/membership/ 

Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Harald Øverby. Harald works as a Professor at NTNU. His interests are in the areas of: Digital Economics, Business Models, Internet Law, Regulations and Governance, and Internet Architecture. He has published over 80 papers in international and national journals and conferences, as well as participated in several research projects. In this episode, we discuss the regulation of big tech with antitrust laws for megacorporations. Drawing examples from the US, Canada, and Europe with well-known names such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and more. We explore the importance of regulation for its ability to promote competition rather than stifle innovation as well as implications for society. References:Economides, N. (2001). The Microsoft antitrust case. Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 1(1), 7-39.Khan, L. M. (2016). Amazon's antitrust paradox. Yale lJ, 126, 710.Lanamäki, A., Väyrynen, K., Iivari, N., Kinnula, M., Ventä-Olkkonen, L., & Laari-Salmela, S. (2019). Is a Taximeter a Guarantee of Honesty or a Barrier to Entry? Exploring Technology Discourses as Consequences of Policy Ambiguity.Letwin, W. L. (1956). Congress and the Sherman Antitrust Law: 1887-1890. The University of Chicago Law Review, 23(2), 221-258.Øverby, H., & Audestad, J. A. (2020). Standards, Regulations, and Net Neutrality in the Digital Economy. Regulations, and Net Neutrality in the Digital Economy (May 15, 2020).

Dr. Douglas Rushkoff, author and educator discusses economic "cooporativism" and circular economics. Dr. Rushkoff sets the premise that if the rest of the Country replicated many of the economic strategies used in Black communities, we could resolve many of the challenges being faced. Winner of the Media Ecology Association’s first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Dr. Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, where he founded the Laboratory for Digital Humanism. He is a columnist for Medium, technology and media commentator for CNN, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future, and a lecturer on media, technology, culture and economics around the world. His new book, a manifesto called Team Human, calls for the retrieval of human autonomy in a digital age. Prior to that, his book Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity argued that we have failed to build the distributed economy that digital networks are capable of fostering, and instead doubled down on the industrial age mandate of growth above all. Rushkoff has taught regularly for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, The New School University, the MaybeLogic Academy and the Esalen Institute. He also lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world. He has been awarded a Fullbright Scholarship, and Senior Fellowships by the Markle Foundation, the Center for Global Communications, and the International University of Japan. He served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Larry King to the Colbert Report and Bill Maher. Rushkoff is on the board of several new media non-profits and companies, and regularly speaks about media, society and ethics to museums, governments, synagogues, churches, universities, and companies.

Futurist media theorist, author, podcast host, and Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, Douglas Rushkoff joins Jamie Wheal to share the emergence of crypto fascism among QAnon, left-wing conspiracies, the new thought plandemic, digital memes as occult sigils, and the end of the world. For the full show notes visit: https://neurohacker.com/homegrown-humans-douglas-rushkoff-team-human-hosted-by-jamie-wheal-podcast

Naresh Vissa is the Founder & CEO of Krish Media & Marketing – a full service e-commerce, technology, development, online, and digital media and marketing agency and solutions provider. He is also the host of 'The Work From Home Show'. He has worked with CNN Radio, Clear Channel Communications, J.P. Morgan Chase, EverBank, The Institute for Energy Research, Houston Rockets, Houston Astros, the American Junior Golf Association, Agora Financial, Agora Publishing, Stansberry Research, and TradeStops. He is the #1 bestselling author of: FIFTY SHADES OF MARKETING: Whip Your Business into Shape & Dominate Your Competition PODCASTNOMICS: The Book of Podcasting... To Make You Millions THE NEW PR: 21st Century Public Relations Strategies & Resources... To Reach Millions TRUMPBOOK: How Digital Liberals Silenced a Nation into Making America Hate Again, and the new book FROM NOBODY TO BESTSELLING AUTHOR! How To Write, Publish & Market Your Book. He has a Master's Degree from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and has been featured on USA Today, Yahoo!, Bloomberg, MSNBC, Huffington Post, Businessweek, MSN Money, Business Insider, India Today, Hindustan Times, and other domestic and international media outlets. Connect with Naresh: http://www.NareshVissa.com; http://www.KrishMediaMarketing.com; http://www.WorkFromHomeShow.com https://twitter.com/xnareshx www.instagram.com/rnaresh15

This podcast is more about the strange but important economics of digital. And on how digital economics can impact well-established competitive advantages like economies of scale. This is a continuation of Podcast 53.You can listen to this podcast here or at iTunes, Google Podcasts and Himalaya.Related podcasts and articles:Review: The Sexy But Dangerous Economics of Digital (Jeff’s Asia Tech Class – Podcast 15)Digital Economics II: Why Pricing Is Getting Both Complicated and Critical. (Jeff’s Asia Tech Class – Podcast 53)This is part of Learning Goals: Level 7, with a focus on:#29: Digital Economics IIConcepts for this class.Digital Information and EconomicsEconomies of ScaleMinimum Efficient Scale5 Scenarios Where Digital Impacts Economies of ScaleNetwork EffectsStandardization And Interconntections Network EffectsCompanies for this class:n/a———-I write and speak about digital China and Asia’s latest tech trends.I also teach Jeff’s Asia Tech Class, an online course and daily commentary for busy executives on Asia tech and China’s digital leaders. www.jefftowson.comSupport the show (https://jefftowson.com)

This podcast is more about the strange but important economics of digital. And on pricing, in particular. It is becoming increasingly complicated with bundling, switching costs and platform business models.You can listen to this podcast here or at iTunes, Google Podcasts and Himalaya.Related podcasts and articles:Review: The Sexy But Dangerous Economics of Digital (Jeff’s Asia Tech Class – Podcast 15)This is part of Learning Goals: Level 7, with a focus on:#29: Digital Economics IIConcepts for this class.Combinatorial InnovationPrice DiscriminationCommon Pricing Strategies (Penetration Pricing, Market Skimming, Survival Pricing, Maximize Profit Pricing)Pricing and Switching CostsSwitching CostsCompanies for this class:n/a----------I write and speak about digital China and Asia’s latest tech trends.I also teach Jeff’s Asia Tech Class, an online course and daily commentary for busy executives on Asia tech and China’s digital leaders. www.jefftowson.comSupport the show (https://jefftowson.com)

Naresh predicted the current economic changes and global labor transformation way back in November 2019 when he went on the Financial Survival Network. We're going to republish that interview he did so you can prepare yourself - and your families - for the coming changes in employment so you can make yourself as valuable as possible while still making great money. When the economy went bust in 2001, companies were forced to seek better, more cost-effective ways of conducting business through technology. Fast-forward 18 years later, and it's easier than ever to outsource services and manufacturing. It's more efficient and improves the bottom line. Naresh talks about the next transformation of the global economy, which is now here thanks to the Wuhan Virus. He was already seeing it with own own business and its services, which have displaced in-house, full-time employees and increased client capabilities. Topics include: - Why trade shows are diminishing. - How the cost of conferences and trade shows were already forcing companies to seek other web-based solutions. - Why online events and summits have boomed over the past two years, and why they will dominate moving forward. - You're no longer limited by space and geography. Naresh did this interview in November 2019, long before the Wuhan Virus was even in existence. Quotables: "We are now living in a time where almost everything will go remote and digital." "2009 was a global economic crisis. It was a wake-up call for businesses to find ways to cut costs and get more done by spending less." "Whenever the next recession comes - it could be next year - it's going to be the next transformation in the global economy where companies and corporations will go freelance, contract, remote, and digital." "Remote and digital will affect office space, commercial real estate, and transportation. I'm very bearish on commercial real estate." "Amazon and Walmart will put its competitors out of business and change commercial real estate." "I don't think the average American is paying attention to these changes that will come. They aren't understanding what this means for them and their jobs. They are content where they are right now. So much is going to change. It's easy for my generation not to think about the future. The previous generation did this, and then 2008 happened, and they found themselves displaced." "The oil & gas industry, since 2014, it's been a bloodbath. They will continue to cut costs, hire part-time workers, temps, independent contractors, lay off tons of employees, stop projects altogether. People thought the industry was a good ol' boys network. People need to be careful with the complacency." "Focus on skills. Make yourself valuable. Create and provide value. The economy will hire people who will get the job done... not the degree they have. If you can master these areas, you'll be fine when the comeuppance happens." Website: Featured Photo by Alexandre Debiève on Unsplash www.WorkFromHomeShow.com

Douglas Rushkoff (@rushkoff) is an author, teacher, and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. He has been named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT.Douglas' work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice.Douglas is the author twenty books including bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus and is releasing his new book Team Human based off his podcast.He has written and hosted three award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries – The Merchants of Cool looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, The Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing, and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance, and Digital Nation, about life on the virtual frontier. Most recently, he made Generation Like, an exploration of teens, marketers, and social media.Douglas is also 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. His novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen. Douglas also served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Larry King to the Colbert Report and Bill Maher.In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:- The reason billionaires are planning for the "inevitable" apocalypse and why that's a big problem- How broken the US political system is and how we can fix it- The big issue with the stock market and venture capital and how we can reinvent business for the 21st century- Why our future is in our hands and what we can do about it- Which tech giants will get broken up and which will reign- The problems with social media and plans to fight back- How regulations affect business and monopolies and where we are headed- Why people are pushing back against tech and how it impacts our world- What Google's walkout means for the future of tech- Why Douglas thinks companies are the key to changing our world- The reason Douglas is very worried about growing inequality- Why capital is the only thing that counts today- How to redesign our education system for the modern era

Our guest this week is Douglas Rushkoff. Douglas is named one of the "world's ten most influential intellectuals by MIT. He's 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 at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc., and Media Virus. He also made the PBS FRONTLINE documentaries, Generation Like, The Persuaders, and The Merchants of Cool. He's a professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at Queens College, a columnist for Medium, and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D., and Aleister & Adolf are all being developed for the screen. You can find him on Twitter @rushkoff and Youtube. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/douglas-rushkoff-media-theorist

The digital economy went bust in 2001. Companies started seeking better more cost-effective ways of doing business. Now you can outsource everything, services and manufacturing, etc. It’s more efficient and improves the bottom line. When the next recession hits, it will be the next transformation of the global economy. Naresh is seeing it with his own business, his services have displaced employees and has increased client capabilities. The need to attend trade shows is diminshing. Their cost is making companies seek other web-based solutions. Online events and summits are becoming dominant. You’re no longer limited by space and geography. 

The digital economy went bust in 2001. Companies started seeking better more cost-effective ways of doing business. Now you can outsource everything, services and manufacturing, etc. It’s more efficient and improves the bottom line. When the next recession hits, it will be the next transformation of the global economy. Naresh is seeing it with his own business, his services have displaced employees and has increased client capabilities. The need to attend trade shows is diminshing. Their cost is making companies seek other web-based solutions. Online events and summits are becoming dominant. You’re no longer limited by space and geography. 

The digital economy went bust in 2001. Companies started seeking better more cost-effective ways of doing business. Now you can outsource everything, services and manufacturing, etc. It’s more efficient and improves the bottom line. When the next recession hits, it will be the next transformation of the global economy. Naresh is seeing it with his own business, his services have displaced employees and has increased client capabilities. The need to attend trade shows is diminshing. Their cost is making companies seek other web-based solutions. Online events and summits are becoming dominant. You’re no longer limited by space and geography. 

The digital economy went bust in 2001. Companies started seeking better more cost-effective ways of doing business. Now you can outsource everything, services and manufacturing, etc. It’s more efficient and improves the bottom line. When the next recession hits, it will be the next transformation of the global economy. Naresh is seeing it with his own business, his services have displaced employees and has increased client capabilities. The need to attend trade shows is diminshing. Their cost is making companies seek other web-based solutions. Online events and summits are becoming dominant. You’re no longer limited by space and geography. 

Douglas Rushkoff (@rushkoff) is an author, teacher and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. He has been named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT.Douglas' work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice.Douglas is the author twenty books including bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus and is releasing his new book Team Human based off his podcast.He has written and hosted three award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries – The Merchants of Cool looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, The Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing, and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance, and Digital Nation, about life on the virtual frontier. Most recently, he made Generation Like, an exploration of teens, marketers, and social media.Douglas is also 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. His novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen. Douglas also served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Larry King to the Colbert Report and Bill Maher.You can listen right here on iTunesIn our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * The reason billionaires are planning for the "inevitable" apocalypse and why that's a big problem * How broken the US political system is and how we can fix it * The big issue with the stock market and venture capital and how we can reinvent business for the 21st century * Why our future is in our hands and what we can do about it * Which tech giants will get broken up and which will reign * The problems with social media and plans to fight back * How regulations affect business and monopolies and where we are headed * Why people are pushing back against tech and how it impacts our world * What Google's walkout means for the future of tech * Why Douglas thinks companies are the key to changing our world * The reason Douglas is very worried about growing inequality * Why capital is the only thing that counts today * How to redesign our education system for the modern eraMake a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFMFringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.

Douglas is a bestselling author of 20 books, including his most recent, Team Human. He is a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at The City University of New York/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. Douglas’ work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to money, power, business, 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. Douglas believes organizations are trying to make humans act more like algorithms when what we really need is to be more human. When asked why he wrote the book he said, “I wanted to write a book in the digital age that helped us really identify and retrieve what makes human beings special, so that we don't accept this incorrect Silicon Valley premise that human beings are the problem and technology is the solution. I don't see that at all.” Technology is not a bad thing in and of itself, the problem comes when we try to make humans operate in the same predictable, fast paced, automated way. Humans are creative, quirky, caring, imaginative, etc...and these characteristics set us apart from technology. When organizations start to see humans strictly for their utility and whether or not they are living up to certain pre-set metrics, we lose out on the benefits of what it means to be human. So how can we start standing up for team human? Douglas says we need to start “recognizing the value of live human interaction”. This starts in the classroom teaching kids how to engage with others and how to stand up and give presentations in front of everyone. We need to take time away from our devices to connect with others in the “real world”. Make eye contact, engage in face-to-face conversation, and “wherever you are find the other living people, find the other conscious humans”. Douglas says we have to understand that when we are online, “You are in a world concocted by companies that are looking to extract time, value and data from you, by any means necessary”. What you will learn in this episode: Why Douglas wrote his book, Team Human Why humans are being devalued in the digital age and how to stop it The problem with Facebook, Twitter and Google How to balance what’s good for business and bad for people Why being human is a team sport Douglas’ thoughts on whether or not we are relying too much on technology Link from the episode: https://rushkoff.com/

Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Rushkoff about the state of the digital economy. Douglas Rushkoff is the host of the Team Human podcast and author of Team Human as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture. He is 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 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. Website: rushkoff.com Twitter: @rushkoff

Dr. Erik Brynjolfsson discusses his book, The Second Machine Age, which is featured in the Navy Reading Program. Erik's book, Machine, Platform, Crowd is also featured in the Navy Reading Program. Erik is a Professor at MIT and a leader in the field of Digital Economics. Erik was recently published in the prestigious journal, Science. His article, "What can machine learning do? Workforce implications" can be found here

In this segment, bestselling author and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff discusses his views on the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks and its Editor Julian Assange, the controversial DNC email leaks released during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and what Julian Assange’s motivations behind the leaks may have been. I ask Douglas to share his thoughts on whistleblowing in the digital age, his view on the pro-transparency activism of whistleblower organizations like WikiLeaks, and the question of whether democracy is truly possible and attainable in our media-saturated culture. Douglas Rushkoff is a writer, documentarian, and lecturer. Douglas has authored numerous best-selling books, including ‘Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity,’ ‘Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now,’ ‘Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age,’ and the yet-to-be released ’Team Human.’ He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels ‘Aleister & Adolf,’ ‘Testament,’ and ‘A.D.D.,’ and made the television documentaries ‘Generation Like,’ ‘Merchants of Cool,’ ‘The Persuaders,’ and ‘Digital Nation.’ He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world. Douglas’s lifetime of work has focused primarily on human autonomy in the digital age. Learn more about Douglas and his work, and pre-order his upcoming book ‘Team Human’ here: http://www.rushkoff.com This is a segment of episode #138 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Survival of the Richest: Anticipating 'The Event' & The Anti-Human Agenda w/ Douglas Rushkoff.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWrushkoff WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com SUPPORT THIS PROJECT: Patreon: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON Donation: http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI FOLLOW & LISTEN: SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD iTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES Google Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE Stitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER RadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB YouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK Twitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER Instagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

In this episode, I speak with writer, documentarian, and lecturer Douglas Rushkoff. Douglas has authored numerous best-selling books, including ‘Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity,’ ‘Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now,’ ‘Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age,’ and the yet-to-be released ’Team Human.’ Douglas’s lifetime of work has focused primarily on human autonomy in the digital age. We start this episode by discussing Douglas’s widely shared article, published on Medium and picked up by CNBC, ‘Survival of the Richest: The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind.’ In the article, Douglas describes a situation in which he was invited to a private meeting with several ultra-wealthy men to go over their questions regarding technological trends in cryptocurrency, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence, as well as their deep-seated concerns regarding “The Event” — a reference to the portending threat of abrupt climate change, nuclear war, social unrest, and economic collapse looming on the horizon of our collective future. Douglas provides a practical and humanistic response to these concerns regarding this future “Event” — emphasizing the inherent value of fostering human relationships with others outside of the logic of Capital and monetary transactions. From there, we discuss the corporate capitalist take over of the Internet, the (de)colonization of human attention, and the value of treating social media and digital communication as an adjunct to direct human relationships and experience. In the later part of this interview, I ask Douglas to share his thoughts on WikiLeaks, the precarious situation of Julian Assange, and the value of whistleblower organizations like WikiLeaks shedding a light on the internal dealings of corporate and government entities in the digital age. Douglas Rushkoff is the host of the ‘Team Human’ podcast and author of ‘Team Human’ as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including, ‘Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity,’ ‘Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed,’ ‘Media Virus,’ and the novel ‘Ecstasy Club.’ He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels ‘Aleister & Adolf,’ ‘Testament,’ and ‘A.D.D.,’ and made the television documentaries ‘Generation Like,’ ‘Merchants of Cool,’ ‘The Persuaders,’ and ‘Digital Nation.’ He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world.☽ ☽ Source: http://bit.ly/2Muiupl Episode Notes: - Everything you would ever need to know about Douglas and his work can be found at his website: http://www.rushkoff.com - Pre-order Douglas’s upcoming book ‘Team Human’ here: http://bit.ly/TeamHumanPreorder - Read ‘Survival of the Richest: The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind’ here: http://bit.ly/SurvivalOfTheRichest - Listen and subscribe to Douglas’s podcast ‘Team Human’ here: https://teamhuman.fm - Follow Douglas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rushkoff - The song featured in this episode is “Queen Persephone” by Dirty Art Club from the album Basement Seance. - WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com - SUPPORT THIS PROJECT: Patreon: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON Donation: http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI - FOLLOW & LISTEN: SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD iTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES Google Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE Stitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER RadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB YouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE - SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK Twitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER Instagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

Political manipulation and fake news have shaken trust in social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to make 2018 the year of big changes on the social media giant. And politicians around the world are threatening to bring in new regulations too. In Germany a new law is now forcing platforms to remove hate speech or face big fines. Join Ed Butler and guests for a discussion on who is to blame for the ills of social media - and how to fix them. Contributors:Samantha Bradshaw from the Computational Propaganda Project at Oxford University. Douglas Rushkoff , Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at City University of New York and author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus. Andreas Kluth, Editor-in-Chief of Handelsblatt Global, the online English-language edition of the German newspaper. Roger McNamee is an American businessman, investor and venture capitalist who was an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg. Image: Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage during the annual Facebook F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 18, 2017 (Credit: Reuters)

Welcome to episode #557 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast.  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #557 - Host: Mitch Joel. When the state of media, news, broadcasting and digital channels creates more confusion than better solutions, there are few big brains I'd rather sit and discuss this with than Douglas Rushkoff. Simply put: Douglas Rushkoff makes my brain hurt, because he is so smart. His latest book, Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus, is about to come out on paperback, and it will make your head spin too. Not to be a contrarian for contrarian's sake, this Media Theorist also happens to understand the underpinnings of the news business, politics, economics, and his thinking will startle you. Regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum or how you feel about "fake news" this will make you think deeply. Rushkoff (for those who do not know) is the person responsible for coining terms like 'digital natives', 'social currency' and 'viral media'. If you've never heard of Rushkoff, he's the winner of the Media Ecology Association's first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, he is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY, technology and media commentator for CNN, digital literacy advocate for Codecademy.com and a lecturer on media, technology, culture and economics around the world. If that's not enough, he recently published a graphic novel titled, Aleister & Adolf. Enjoy the conversation...  Running time: 55:14. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on twitter. Six Pixels of Separation the book is now available. CTRL ALT Delete is now available too! Here is my conversation with Douglas Rushkoff. Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus. Aleister & Adolf. Present Shock. Program Or Be Programmed. Get Back In The Box. Join Douglas Rushkoff's mailing list. Follow Douglas on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #557 - Host: Mitch Joel. Tags: advertising advertising podcast aleister and adolf audio blog blogging brand branding broadcasting business blog business book business podcast business thinker cnn code academy culture cuny david usher digital channel digital economics digital literacy digital marketing digital marketing agency digital marketing blog digital native douglass rushkoff economics facebook fake news google itunes j walter thompson jwt leadership podcast management podcast marketing marketing blog marketing podcast media media commentator media theorist media theory mirum mirum agency mirum agency blog mirum blog mirum podcast news news business politics social currency social media throwing rocks at the google bus twitter viral media wpp

Part 1 of the IAH and Team Human Podcast episodical swap! Next week Part 2 will be over at Douglas' podcast Team Human. Really exciting. Douglas is one of my oldest friends, mentors and inspirations. I've looked up to a great deal over the years on a variety of issues. Douglas was way ahead of the curve in interpreting the effect that digital media and cyberspace would have on the human condition. Through his books Media Virus, Present Shock and Throwing Rocks and The Google Bus - Douglas has given astonishing views into the color of our new world. On this podcast we talked a lot about what Team Human (the concept) means, looking back on the past and our experience in it and how our the very nature of our consciousness is changing right before our very eyes. Douglas is one of the great thinkers of our time, enjoy. INTRO RANT: The quality of action within love Douglas Rushkoff is a writer, documentarian, and lecturer whose work focuses on human autonomy in a digital age. He is the author of fifteen bestselling books on media, technology, and society, including Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, and Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus. He has made such award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries as Generation Like, Merchants of Cool, and The Persuaders, and is the author of graphic novels including Testament and Aleister & Adolf.  Rushkoff is the recipient of the Marshall McLuhan Award for his book Coercion, The Jacques Ellul Award for his documentary The Merchants of Cool, and the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. Named one of the world’s ten most influential intellectuals by MIT, he is responsible for originating such concepts as “viral media,” “social currency,” and “digital natives.” Today, Dr. Rushkoff serves as Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, where he recently founded the Laboratory for Digital Humanism and hosts its TeamHuman podcast.  @rushkoff

This week, we’re bringing you a conversation with author and policy advisor Tim Wu. In his new book The Attention Merchants, Wu makes the case truly paying attention is both incredibly rare and incredibly valuable. He’s joined in conversation by conversation by writer, documentarian, and Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, Douglas Rushkoff.

Winner of the Media Ecology Association's first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Dr. Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, technology and media commentator for CNN, digital literacy advocate for Codecademy.com and a lecturer on media, technology, culture and economics around the world. His new book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, argues that we have failed to build the distributed economy that digital networks are capable of fostering, and instead doubled down on the industrial age mandate of growth above all. His previous best-selling books on media and popular culture have been translated to over thirty languages. They include Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, a followup to his Frontline documentary, Digital Nation, and Life Inc, an analysis of the corporate spectacle, which was also made into a short, award-winning film. His other books include Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out and Coercion, winner of the Marshall Mcluhan Award for best media book. Rushkoff also wrote the acclaimed novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy and graphic novel, Club Zero-G. He wrote the graphic novels Testament and A.D.D., for Vertigo. He has written and hosted three award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries – The Merchants of Cool looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, The Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing, and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance, and Digital Nation, about life on the virtual frontier. Most recently, he made Generation Like, an exploration of teens, marketers, and social media. He has been awarded a Fullbright Scholarship, and Senior Fellowships by the Markle Foundation, the Center for Global Communications, and the International University of Japan. He served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Larry King to the Colbert Report and Bill Maher. He developed the Electronic Oracle software series for HarperCollins Interactive. In this episode, we talk about how he sees the purpose of Judaism is to help one transcend Judaism, the psycho-social peril of living in the digital now, and how the new media empires has failed to build the distributed economy that digital networks are capable of fostering, and instead doubled down on the industrial age mandate of growth above all. I got to talk to one of my heroes, and this show made it possible. Thanks, OTBR listeners. You make it all possible. Enjoy!

Jessica Ann took some time away to release her new book, Humanize Your Brand: How to Create Content that Connects with Your Customers, published to rave reviews in February 2016. It's available on Amazon as a paperback and ebook, and an audiobook version will be released soon.  Thanks for your patience as the show took a bit of a break. In the Art of Humanity, we explore creativity + consciousness to allow you and your business to evolve. In Episode 17, Jessica Ann talks with one of the world's greatest thinkers: media theorist and futurist Douglass Rushkoff. Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He is the author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including Program or Be Programmed, Media Virus, Life Inc and the novel Ecstasy Club. His latest book is called Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, available for pre-order on Amazon. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels Testament and A.D.D., and made the television documentaries Generation Like, Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world. The interview starts off talking about his background, then goes into technology, humanity, and maybe a little bit about...Donald Trump.  

Welcome to episode #504 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast.  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #504 - Host: Mitch Joel. Simply put: Douglas Rushkoff makes my brain hurt, because he is so smart. He recently published his latest book, Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus, and it will make your head spin too. All of our assumptions about disruption, the digital economy, unicorns, valuations, and how all of this technological innovation has evolved will be questioned. Not to be a contrarian for contrarian's sake, this Media Scholar also happens to understand the underpinnings of our economy, and it will startle you. The book acts as a warning and - as with everything he touches - it will make you think deeply. Rushkoff (for those who do not know) is the person responsible for coining terms like 'digital natives', 'social currency' and 'viral media'. If you've never heard of Rushkoff, he's the winner of the Media Ecology Association's first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, he is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY, technology and media commentator for CNN, digital literacy advocate for Codecademy.com and a lecturer on media, technology, culture and economics around the world. Trust me, you do not want to miss this episode. Enjoy the conversation...  Running time: 57:45. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter.  Six Pixels of Separation the book is now available. CTRL ALT Delete is now available too! Here is my conversation with Douglas Rushkoff/ Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus. Present Shock. Follow Douglas on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'. Get David's song for free here: Artists For Amnesty. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #504 - Host: Mitch Joel. Tags: advertising podcast audio blog blogging brand business blog business book business podcast cnn code academy cuny david usher digital marketing digital marketing agency digital marketing blog douglas rushkoff facebook google itunes j walter thompson jwt leadership podcast management podcast marketing marketing blog marketing podcast mirum mirum agency mirum agency blog mirum blog present shock throwing rocks at the google bus twitter wpp

Show Notes In which we tackle copyright (or left, as you like), barely touch on patents, and generally try to think about how to handle questions of intellectual property as consumers and creators thereof in the brave new world of digital economics and cheap copies of everything (even Nike shoes). Chapters Intro (1:02) The Reason for Copyright (1:02–8:22) Valuing Products in Different Ways (8:22–19:55) “Pay Me For This Thing” (19:55–26:55) Conclusion (28:10) Music We know. Pretty sweet sounds. Even if we do say so ourselves. “New Life”, from New Life, by Stephen Carradini. Used because we can do whatever we want with our own music! (Turns out, in this case, so can you…) “Winning Slowly Theme”, by Chris Krycho. See above! Links Things we talked about in the show you might want to read some more about. We give them to you for free! Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, by Henry Jenkins Stratechery.fm Episode 02: Fat as a Service CCLI – church copyright licenses, designed to allow churches to use music in their services without paying exorbitant fees