Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1617230170 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Named one of the world’s ten most influential thinkers by MIT, he has made documentaries for PBS Frontline, including Generation Like and The Merchants of Cool, and he is a professor of media theory and digital economics at Queens College, CUNY. He lives in New York and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world.. Douglas Rushkoff is the bestselling author of Present Shock, as well as a dozen other
Excellent analysis of modern-day capitalism and its ills Fantastic read, really enjoyed it.Now, most of you will read the above and go "meh" - but the amazing thing about it is that the writer probably qualifies for what I am used to call an "unhinged liberal" while my political leanings are to the right of Mrs Thatcher - so, it's quite an amazing feat that I didn't read t. Very good Very good. My first book by D. Ruskhoff - but certainly not the last. If you want to understand how current digital economy and (private) investment works - read this book. Clear, concise with a good narration and with enough facts to support the author's point of view.. I bought this book so I would have a permanent copy! This is a great book. It explains why the people in the United States do not share in the current form of prosperity and what we can do to change it.
It’s time to optimize our economy for the human beings it’s supposed to be serving. 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. Tying together disparate threads—big data, the rise of robots and AI, the increasing participation of algorithms in stock market trading, the gig economy, the collapse of the eurozone—Rushkoff provides a critical vocabulary for our economic moment and a nuanced portrait of humans and commerce at a critical crossroads.. Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? &
“Douglas Rushkoff is one of today’s most incisive media theorists and a provocative critic of our digital economy. But have we lost our way? As an economy? As a community? As a society with a value proposition that doesn’t make sense on a human or economic level? Rushkoff asks questions that matter. Douglas Rushkoff questions the deepest assumptions of the modern economy and blazes a path toward a more human-centered world.” —TIMO’REILLY, founder, O’Reilly Media “Douglas Rushkoff is a true digital visionary. Read this rousing call to reboot our society from the bottom up before it’s t