Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

Cognitive scientist, social entrepreneur, and author of Rebooting AI Gary Marcus helps us parse between the real and imagined threats of AI, shares his recent experience testifying before Congress, and discusses his plans to intervene on our behalf. 🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses why tech bro warnings feel more like a coordinated money grab. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s...

Douglas Rushkoff took the stage at All Tech is Human’s Responsible Tech Mixer to explain why he refuses to be autotuned in the face of technosolutionism and the rise AI . Recorded April 26, 2023, at Betaworks in New York City. 📺 Click here to watch a video of Rushkoff’s talk. 🌎 Learn more about All Tech is Human Website | LinkedIn | YouTube | Slack | Programs | Upcoming Events 🌍 Team Human is m...

Author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World Malcom Harris helps us understand the history and foundations of the Silicon Valley mindset so we can better respond to its destructive capacity today. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how cultivating awe can save the world. 📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, How Cultivating Awe Can Save The World , on Medium. 📕 Palo...

TV Producer and Author of Screenage: How TV Shaped Our Reality From Tammy Faye to RuPaul’s Drag Race Fenton Bailey discusses the nature of the screen and the power it has unleashed for a designer reality. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how re-socializing the people can help us change the register. 📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Individual Liberty is No Longer the Goal , on Medium....

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the seventh Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, April 28, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will influence art and music production, the differences between artistic and corporate use of AI, and overcoming fear. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how AIs are...

Cofounder of Greenpeace and writer of the Deep Green column Rex Weyler helps us transcend the idea that we can fix the environment – or anything else – so we can finally learn to participate as members of a living world. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how re-socializing people can help us change the register. 📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Individual Liberty is No Longer the Goal ,...

Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at the Partnership on AI (PAI) Claire Leibowicz, Tech Policy Press CEO and Editor Justin Hendrix , Betaworks CEO John Borthwick , and Douglas Rushkoff come up with guiding principles for the future of artificial intelligence on a live panel discussion recorded at Betaworks on Monday, April 3. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff announces a new MA program in Medi...

Executive Director of the Institute for the Future Marina Gorbis and Institute for the Future Equitable Enterprise Initiative Advisor Jerry Davis discuss how to change the register from industrial values to collaborative commerce. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how denaturalizing power reveals the constructed landscape. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue,   If it Ain’...

Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream Alissa Quart helps us dispel the myth of the self-made man once and for all. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why he believes we’ve hit peak billionaire mindset. 📖 Alissa Quart’s book, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream , is now availa...

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the sixth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, February 17, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about virtual reality’s potential to transform storytelling, what it means to be punk, and how artists can navigate recent tech layoffs. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses four i...

Journalist, Tea Pub operator, and Founder of SolarPunk Stories Alex Holland helps us learn to tell better and more constructive stories about our collective future. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how AI can be compared to the Conquistadors. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How We Taught Technology to Program Humans , on Medium. 📕 Read Sell the Sizzle About Alex Ho...

Co-founder of the Commons Stack and Token Engineering researcher at BlockScience Jeff Emmett tells us about the wonders of mycelia - and why we may all want to start considering ourselves mycopunks. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how the only answer to more tech is more human investment 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How to Grade Papers Written by AI , on Medium....

Organizer , The Connector journalist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us evaluate how directly we need to be involved in political activism to keep democracy sustainable. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff shares a story about how the universe winked at him, and why he thinks we’ll all be okay. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Magic is Real , on Medium. Keep...

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fifth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, January 20, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will change the educational landscape, the worldviews that emerged from 1950s speculative fiction, and why media ecology never took off in Europe. 🎙 In his monologue, Rus...

Library technologist, owner of MetaFilter , and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide , Jessamyn West shares the joys of hands-on technology education in the public library - and how modeling behavior may just work better than scaling it. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how to grade papers written by AI. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Ho...

Playing for Team Human today, historian of alternative spirituality and author of Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences , Mitch Horowitz helps us figure out if we’re praying to the wrong gods. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the real and imagined dangers of artificial intelligence. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Medium is the Message , o...

In a special holiday message, Rushkoff imagines a world where infectious - not effective - altruism is the goal of communities. 🙏 Thank you to everyone who supported Team Human this year. We wish you a safe, healthy, and happy holiday season. 🌍 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 exc...

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fourth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. Rushkoff fields questions about how his views on internet privacy have evolved over the last two decades, the different sensibilities of young generations, and his recent writing. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the changes he would make to Twitter if h...

Software engineer, computer scientist, and creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great Molly White helps us determine whether Web3 is really going just great for humanity — and helps us figure out how much skepticism to have about the blockchain. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how 2022 was the year tech bro lunacy was exposed. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Year Tec...

Game Designer and author of The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design , Eric Zimmerman helps us discover how learning to play can keep us from being played. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses longtermism, metamodernism, and optimizing Twitter for a post-human future. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, What’s a Meta For?  -  part two , on Medium. Keep up...

Writer and director of documentary and narrative films Noah Hutton helps us recognize the power and perfection in what might otherwise be considered our failings and mistakes. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses big tech’s search for the ultimate escape hatch. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, What’s a Meta For?  -  part one , on Medium. Keep up with Noah Hutton: Websit...

Journalist and author of C hokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back , Cory Doctorow shares his latest thoughts on the ways the economy and creativity are being hacked by the perpetrators of chokepoint capitalism. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how Elon Musk may have undermined both authoritarianism and his hopes for...

Douglas Rushkoff joins Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin, authors of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back, for a special panel recorded live from Ottawa International Writers Festival on October 24, 2022. 📖 C hokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Ba...

Comedian and Creator of the Deep Healing Podcast Greg Barris shares the open secret to collective healing: Laughing together. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff shares the real promise of shared virtual realities 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Now You See What I Mean , on Medium. 🎧 Learn more about Deep Healing with Greg Barris . For more about Greg Barris Twitter | Instagra...

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, S...