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Douglas Rushkoff joins author Stephen Oram, editor Benjamin Greenaway, and cofounder of Cyberia Eva Pascoe for a special conversation about speculative fiction in celebration of the release of CyberSalon’s 22 Ideas About The Future. How does speculative fiction help us reveal truths we may have hidden from ourselves? 🎙 This conversation was recorded live from London’s Newspeak House on Thursday, September 29, 2022.📕 Learn more about 22 Ideas About The Future, available now.🌍 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the third Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.He fields questions from community members about Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, the possibilities of Web3 after Ethereum’s swtich from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, and how we can find hope in entertainment.🌍 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Essayist and McLuhan archivist Clinton Ignatov helps us understand Marshall McLuhan - and ourselves - in the context of the media environments we inhabit and the metaphors we use to understand them.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how our desperate attempts at profiteering and monopolization render us all more vulnerable to death and disaster.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How Capitalism Makes Us Less Safe, on Medium.For more about Clinton IgnatovTwitter | 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Psychologist, sociologist, MIT Professor, and Author of Reclaiming Conversation and The Empathy Diaries, Sherry Turkle guest hosts Team Human in a special reverse interview to celebrate the release of Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.Turkle helps Rushkoff share his experiences with the men behind The Mindset to understand them in the greater context of the fear of intimacy and quest for domination fueling so many of their exploits.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reflects on the release of Survival of the Richest and reminds us to engage with the ground —  not just the figure.📕 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available wherever books are sold.🌍 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.