Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

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...

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 Huma...

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...

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...

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 bo...

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 investi...

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. 🌍 Te...

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 Nowh...

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 Brickma...

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....

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...

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 Cos...

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 Pi...

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 Web...

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. 🌍 Team Human is made...