4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Douglas Rushkoff is obsessed with technology and how it impacts our lives. In this interview, he offers insight into how we shape and are shaped by technology, what’s happening with mainstream media, and some tips on remaining sane online.
Rushkoff is an author, professor, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, culture, and institutions create, share and influence each other's values. He is the author of 17 books including the 2019 release Team Human, and he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens.
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0:00.0 | We contaminated Twitter, the internet, |
0:02.4 | we contaminated the internet. |
0:04.0 | These were play spaces. |
0:06.1 | They built the internet, yeah, |
0:07.9 | for scientists to be able to communicate with each other. |
0:10.3 | What did the scientists do with it? |
0:11.8 | They ended up telling like, fantasy star trek episodes |
0:15.4 | and sharing recipes and took a network |
0:18.0 | where every node is going, hello, who are you? |
0:20.3 | Let's play, hello, let's play, let's play. |
0:23.0 | It was that, it was a cultural explosion. |
0:26.1 | And my advice to the regular listener reader person, |
0:29.6 | the person like me is honestly go to real media |
0:35.2 | for your information, go to social media for your play. |
0:39.8 | I'm your host Shane Parish. |
0:56.8 | The goal of this show is to master the best |
1:01.8 | what other people have already figured out |
1:03.4 | so you can unlock your potential. |
1:05.6 | We interview world class doers and thinkers |
1:07.7 | so you can better analyze problems, seize opportunities, |
1:10.4 | and master decision making. |
1:12.5 | Every episode is packed with lessons and insights |
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