Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas RushkoffRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 300 MBOverview: “If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.” This is the moment we’ve been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, but we don’t seem to have any time in […]
Coercion: Why We Listen to What “they” Say by Douglas RushkoffRequirements: .PDF reader, 14.9 MbOverview: Noted media pundit and author of Playing the Future Douglas Rushkoff gives a devastating critique of the influence techniques behind our culture of rampant consumerism. With a skilled analysis of how experts in the fields of marketing, advertising, retail atmospherics, […]
Team Human by Douglas RushkoffRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 153 MBOverview: “A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork.” (Walter Isaacson) Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff, digital theorist and host of the NPR-One podcast Team Human, reveals the […]
Team Human by Douglas RushkoffRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3.4 MBOverview: A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork.”—Walter Isaacson Team Human is a manifesto—a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he […]
Exit Strategy: The Original Version by Douglas RushkoffRequirements: .ePUB Reader | 895 kbOverview: Set in the near-future (2008), Exit Strategy is a darkly comic send-up of the dot.com mania of the late 1990s and a modern-day retelling of the story of Joseph. Like Joseph, Jamie Cohen is betrayed by his compadres but unexpectedly finds himself […]