Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

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Survival of the Richest Sep 06, 2022

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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.

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Paris Marx Aug 31, 2022

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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.

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Resources mentioned on this episode:

Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff

Road To Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation - Paris Marx

Technopoly - Neil Postman

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Machine Age in the American City - Peter Norton

An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore

Marc Brickman Aug 24, 2022

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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.

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Janelle Orsi Aug 10, 2022

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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.

Kibbitz Room II live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Aug 03, 2022

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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.

Conner Habib Jul 27, 2022

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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.

Éliane Ubalijoro & David Jensen Jul 20, 2022

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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.

Kibbitz Room live from the Virtual Apocalypse Bunker Jul 13, 2022

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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.

Philip Rosedale Jul 06, 2022

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Founder of Second Life and High Fidelity Labs Philip Rosedale discusses the misguided efforts fueling Web3 and helps us retrieve the original mission for immersive social platforms.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how speculators prevent crypto from working as a safe haven.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Tail Wagging The Doge, on Medium.

Lisa Lovebucket Jun 29, 2022

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Founder of The Creative Arts Recruitment Squad and The Post Apocalypse School of TeessideLisa Lovebucket shows us how learning to prepare for the worst may give us the resilience we need to avoid apocalypse altogether.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff asks us not to abandon people in red states.

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