How the Web Ate the Economy, and Why This Is Good for Everyone
Douglas Rushkoff
Author, "Life Inc."
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, and the novel Ecstasy Club. He made the PBS Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and the upcoming Digital Nation. He is the host of the WFMU radio show The MediaSquat, and he will be teaching the New School University this Fall. His latest book, Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back, was just published by RandomHouse and RandomHouse Audiobooks.
For more about Rushkoff and his work, visit rushkoff.com.
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Douglas had plenty of thought provoking commentary on the economy and the role of the Internet. Excellent!
Thanks so much Marc. I would LOVE to hook up with Stewart and you and they Long Now. I never quite insinuated myself into the GBN, but Long Now is a project much more aligned with my own goals, anyway.
Interestingly enough, Nassim and I have both the same agent and the same editor. I took a walk with him once, and he is as smart live as he is in writing.
Douglas, your historical perspective, out of the box thinking, and willingness to challenge accepted precepts makes you one of a handful of incredible thinkers who are helping us to challenge and thereby remake the rules by which populations have been ruled and spoils shared for centuries. I’d put you in the ranks of a Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and am going to recommend Steward Brand bring you in to talk to the Long Now. Thanks for an excellent and enlightening talk.