The Ripple Effect Podcast #109 (Douglas Rushkoff)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

Society & Culture, 6, Philosophy, Bryan, Carlin, Callen, Dave, Bill

4.6 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Douglas Rushkoff, author, media theorist, lecturer & documentarian who has been on shows like The Colbert Report, TED Talk, Frontline, Vice, The Joe Rogan Experience & many more. He was also # 6 on MIT's most important public intellectuals.
Douglas returns to the show to talk about how civilization has been structured & different ways we can restructure it, the pros & cons of technology, how we can use technology to benefit civilization instead of it being mindless entertainment or another way for corporations to make money, we talk education, the future, the past and the present. We also talk about his most recent books 'Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus' and 'Aleister & Adolf' and his new podcast Team Human.

Transcript

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0:00.0	believe in the rip Believe
0:21.6	The ripple fact Hey Douglin. Hey Douglin. Hey Douglas.
0:57.0	Hey.
0:59.0	Hey, how are you? Thanks for being with me. I appreciate it.
1:02.0	Sure, I'm okay. Can you hear me just fine?
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:08.0	Great, great, great. Thanks. I really appreciate it. Last time you were on was almost 100 episodes ago.
1:14.6	It was actually 99 episodes ago.
1:16.6	But, yeah, you were one of the first guests that came on and you in a handful of guests,
1:23.6	until this day I'm still very appreciative of because really at that time podcasts were kind of everywhere.
1:30.3	And for people who are as accomplished and, you know, as respected as you and some of my other early guests,
1:38.3	to come on a show that barely, you know, barely got put together and only had a couple episodes, I really appreciate, you know, just the fact that you guys were nice enough of people and
1:48.7	guests to come on and talk to nobody.
1:51.2	So I really appreciated that.
1:53.1	Oh, good, sweet.
1:55.8	I remember back in the day with all these digital magazines and things were coming out and I was one of the only
2:02.6	you know cyberculture kind of thinkers out there I'd always end up like in the very first
2:08.6	issue of one magazine or the other before they've got you know any subscribers or anything
2:13.6	it was always funny to me because I you because I've even gotten on covers of things
2:17.9	like UK wired or something
2:20.0	but back when the
2:22.7	cultures are so small
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