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Douglas Rushkoff joins Medium's Adrienne Gibbs for a special Twitter Spaces conversation about the launch of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. Originally recorded September 9, 2022.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on the Team Human Team Feed. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Multi-disciplinary artist and author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell conducts a rare reverse interview with Douglas Rushkoff to celebrate the launch of Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.Odell interrogates the premise and purpose of. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires through the lens of her investigations about why we do what we do with technology. For more about Jenny Odell:Website | Twitter | How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy📕 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available wherever books are sold.🎧 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is produced by Record Books and narrated by Douglas Rushkoff.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s episode, Douglas Rushkoff offers a special excerpt of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.📕 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available wherever books are sold!🎧 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is produced by Record Books and narrated by Douglas Rushkoff.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation and Host of Tech Won’t Save Us Paris Marx helps us see how the future of transportation imagined by our techno-benefactors may best be understood as a collective dead end.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how laughter can be an antidote to help us view the mindset of tech billionaires.📕 Road To Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation is now available wherever books are sold.Keep up with Paris Marx:Twitter | Tech Won't Save Us🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed.Resources mentioned on this episode:Survival of the Richest - Douglas RushkoffRoad To Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation - Paris MarxTechnopoly - Neil PostmanFighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Machine Age in the American City - Peter NortonAn Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The lighting genius behind Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen, experience designer, and artist Marc Brickman shows us how centering the person in the very last row of the theater makes the experience better for everyone.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains the mindset behind why tech billionaires fear artificial intelligence — and why going meta isn’t a winning strategy. Keep up with Marc Brickman:Instagram | Website🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Playing for Team Human today, Co-Founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center and Senior Advisor to the Institute For The Future’s Equitable Enterprise Initiative, Janelle Orsi helps Rushkoff overcome his dream for a turn-key solution for greater wealth distribution.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how we can transcend both denial and distraction when the world seems to be coming apart.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, That Queasy Feeling, on Medium. 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the second Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.He fields questions from community members discussing how the ideals of the 1990s counterculture won, the role of religion in Team Human's mission, and why platform cooperatives have trouble scaling against venture capital-backed ventures. Recorded July 23, 2022.You can participate in the next live Kibbitz room inside the virtual Apocalypse Bunker on Friday, August 26 at 1 PM ET. Live from the Team Human community Discord server.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on the Team Human Team Feed. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author of Hawk Mountain and Host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, Conner Habib shows us how shared stories and identification with each other’s trauma can help us find a new level of solidarity with one another.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why higher prices are not necessarily a bad thing.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Breaking News: Stuff Actually Costs a Lot, on Medium.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UNEP co-champions of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) Éliane Ubalijoro and David Jensen help us see how to marry big, top-down efforts with bottom-up reality.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us that no matter how bad things get, the basic principles of ethical behavior remain the same.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Don’t Change the Picture, Change Reality, on Medium.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the first live Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.He fields questions from community members discussing the different ways of acknowledging the value created and extracted by social media platforms, why algorithms tend to create fear-based affinity groups, and how to consider emerging technologies and Web3 for decentralized or cooperative governance. Recorded July 1, 2022.You can participate in the next live Kibbitz room inside the virtual Apocalypse Bunker on Saturday, July 23, at 12 PM ET. Live from the Team Human community Discord server.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on the Team Human Team Feed. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.