Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (631 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1617230170 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Douglas Rushkoff is the bestselling author of Present Shock, as well as a dozen other books on media, technology, and culture, including Program or Be Programmed and Life Inc. He lives in New York and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world.. Named one of the world’s ten most influential thinkers by MIT, he has made documenta
Read this rousing call to reboot our society from the bottom up before it’s too late.” —ASTRA TAYLOR, filmmaker and author of The People’s Platform “In what could be seen as a crisis, Rushkoff shares his smart, optimistic, and pragmatic perspective about how both businesses and consumers can reimagine today’s current economic operating system in the digital age—and prosper.” —BONIN BOUGH, chief media and e-commerce officer, Mondelz“Powerful truth telling… The crux of the argument that Rushkoff makes is that the digital economy is a house of cards built on fictional growth metrics that drive companies to raise money, undercut human workers, sell on the public markets and then—almost inevitably—collapse under the weight of public market demands.” —Forbes “A brilliant, b
Amazon Customer said Good read on economic i deas. Very interesting book. Rushkoff supports some idea about money and decentralization of certain industries. Good read on economic i deas.. Excellent read! It got me thinking about a lot Excellent read! It got me thinking about a lot of things that I had not previously considered, like different models for economic cooperativism in the digital age. In particular, I discovered the "Platform Cooperativism" meeting that took place at the New School in NYC in November 2015. If you like this book, check out the videos from the meeting at: [. Good Read for Anyone Interested in the Future of Technology and Economics Highly recommended for the subjects as they're both very applicable today. Author does a good job explaining the content well but can sometimes go off on tangents that are harder to follow. If you can stick with the book and its contents, you will be very happy you did.
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed media scholar and author Douglas Rushkoff tells us how to combine the best of human nature with the best of modern technology. Rather, a tornado of technological improvements has spun our economic program out of control, and humanity as a whole—the protesters and the Google employees as well as the shareholders and the executives—are all trapped by the consequences. Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else? When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn’t between the unemployed and the digital elite, or even th