Douglas Rushkoff - Team Human (#292)

Douglas Rushkoff's 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. https://rushkoff.com/ Music For Mushrooms - a new feature film - IN THEATERS NOW Get your ticket before they're gone at https://musicformushrooms.com JOIN THE MOVEMENT - OFFICIAL SCREENINGS: Los Angeles / Santa Monica - Oct 4-10 Corvallis, OR - Oct 4-10 Arlington, MA - Oct 6 Encinitas, CA - Oct 8 Boulder, CO - Oct 9-20 Sedona, AZ - Oct 10-11 Sante Fe, NM - Oct 11-17 Oklahoma City, OK - Oct 12 Kingston, WA - Oct 15 Albuquerque, NM - Oct 21-24 Greely, CO - Oct 23 San Rafael, CA - Oct 24-31 Oakland, CA - Oct 25-30 San Francisco, CA - Oct 25-31 Santa Cruz, CA - Oct 26 Eugene, OR - Nov 1-7 Lake Worth Beach, FL - Nov 3 Atlanta, GA - Nov 6 Baltimore, MD - Nov 7 Las Vegas, NV - Nov 13 Hilo, HI - Nov 15 Lancaster, PA - Nov 18-26 Victoria, BC - Nov 21 Vancouver, BC - Nov 26 All on October 10 - A National Screening Event: Sedona, AZ Santa Monica, CA Boulder, CO Portland, OR Encino, CA Claremont, CA North Hollywood, CA Glendale, CA Dallas, TX San Diego, CA Sacramento, CA Fairfax, VA Washington D.C. Bakersfield, CA San Diego, CA Asheville, NC Phoenixville, PA Salt Lake City, UT Corvallis, OR Salem, OR Columbus, OH Billings, MT Chatham, NY More cities and EU coming soon. Tix and sign up for updates at musicformushrooms.com. PATREON / GIFT - Please support the show by joining our East Forest COUNCIL on Patreon. Monthly Council, live-streams, demos, and more. UPCOMING LIVE - http://eastforest.org/tickets COMMUNITY - join at EastForest.org MUSIC by East Forest: Spotify / Apple SHOP: http://eastforest.store IG: @eastforest | FB/TT/YT: @eastforestmusic