Radical Abundance: How We Get Past "Free" and Learn to Exchange Value Again

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Douglas Rushkoff (Author, "Program or Be Programmed")
Keynote
Location: Special Events Hall

Keynote given by Douglas Rushkoff, author of Life, Inc.

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Douglas Rushkoff

Author, "Program or Be Programmed"

Douglas Rushkoff is the author of ten books on media, technology, and society, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Coercion, Nothing Sacred, Get Back in the Box, Life Inc. and the novel Ecstasy Club. He made the PBS Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. His newest book and e-book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, is being released at Web 2.0.

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Picture of John Vasko
11/19/2009 6:31pm EST

This was my favorite of all the keynote speeches. I would have loved to hear more. Douglas, I shall be checking out your blog and hope that your presentation files are somewhere online. Really good.

Picture of Mark J. Levitt
11/19/2009 6:20pm EST

Douglas’ video is now up (see above)...enjoying this remotely now!

Picture of Suzanne Axtell
11/19/2009 8:31am EST

The video will be posted later today or tomorrow at the latest, barring any technical glitches.

Picture of Gustavo Sanchez
11/19/2009 2:09am EST

Great keynote, a perspective on things I never really considered. Thanks for thinking about these things and bringing them to the forefront, they deserve to be talked about!

Picture of Douglas Rushkoff
11/18/2009 8:15pm EST

So sweet of you to say. This is my “human” feedback channel!

Catherine Ventura
11/18/2009 8:12pm EST

Great keynote, full of provocative insights. Can’t wait to read Life Inc now!

Picture of Douglas Rushkoff
11/18/2009 8:02pm EST

Thanks for that. I could not see a thing. It was the most “distant” feeling real life audience I have ever spoken to – and I’ve spoken an awful lot. Add the Twitter stream behind me, and you have a perfect recipe for speaker disorientation and humiliation.

Oddly enough, I figured if the event was really dedicated to the web audience, I would try to forget there were “real” people in the room with me, and instead focus on the whole talk as a YouTube video. I did it more for psychological survival than anything else.

But it’s great to know you were there and that I connected. I had no idea how it was going because there were no “laugh lines” in this particular tirade, and it was a new piece of material for me.

I do hope they put it up so I can watch how it came off.

11/18/2009 7:56pm EST

Great insights, thought-provoking content, radical ideas and an enthusiastic speaker made this one of the better keynotes so far. Terrific.

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