Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the sixth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, February 17, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about virtual reality’s potential to transform storytelling, what it means to be punk, and how artists can navigate recent tech layoffs. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses four interventions in the human machine he plans to explore with the Institute for the Future. 🌍 Team Hu...
Mar 07, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 240
Journalist, Tea Pub operator, and Founder of SolarPunk Stories Alex Holland helps us learn to tell better and more constructive stories about our collective future. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how AI can be compared to the Conquistadors. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How We Taught Technology to Program Humans , on Medium. 📕 Read Sell the Sizzle About Alex Holland: Alex has worked as a journalist in the UK, Venezuela and India, started and led the campaign...
Feb 23, 2023•58 min•Ep. 239
Co-founder of the Commons Stack and Token Engineering researcher at BlockScience Jeff Emmett tells us about the wonders of mycelia - and why we may all want to start considering ourselves mycopunks. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how the only answer to more tech is more human investment 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How to Grade Papers Written by AI , on Medium. 🍄 Learn more about Mycopunk Principles About Jeff Emmett: Jeff Emmett is a Token Engineering rese...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 238
Organizer , The Connector journalist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us evaluate how directly we need to be involved in political activism to keep democracy sustainable. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff shares a story about how the universe winked at him, and why he thinks we’ll all be okay. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Magic is Real , on Medium. Keep up with Micah Sifry: The Connector | Mastodon | Twitter 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to th...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 237
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fifth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, January 20, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will change the educational landscape, the worldviews that emerged from 1950s speculative fiction, and why media ecology never took off in Europe. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff invites us to welcome the unpredictable. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s mono...
Jan 26, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 236
Library technologist, owner of MetaFilter , and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide , Jessamyn West shares the joys of hands-on technology education in the public library - and how modeling behavior may just work better than scaling it. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how to grade papers written by AI. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How to Read Papers Written By AI, on Medium. 📕 Learn more about West’s book, Without a Net: Libraria...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 235
Playing for Team Human today, historian of alternative spirituality and author of Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences , Mitch Horowitz helps us figure out if we’re praying to the wrong gods. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the real and imagined dangers of artificial intelligence. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Medium is the Message , on Medium. About Mitch Horowitz: Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one o...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 234
In a special holiday message, Rushkoff imagines a world where infectious - not effective - altruism is the goal of communities. 🙏 Thank you to everyone who supported Team Human this year. We wish you a safe, healthy, and happy holiday season. 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon . Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed. Hosted on Acast. See aca...
Dec 24, 2022•6 min
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fourth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. Rushkoff fields questions about how his views on internet privacy have evolved over the last two decades, the different sensibilities of young generations, and his recent writing. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the changes he would make to Twitter if he became CEO of the platform. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, If I Were ...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 233
Software engineer, computer scientist, and creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great Molly White helps us determine whether Web3 is really going just great for humanity — and helps us figure out how much skepticism to have about the blockchain. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how 2022 was the year tech bro lunacy was exposed. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Year Tech Bro Lunacy Was Exposed , on Medium. Keep up with Molly White: Website | Web3 is Going Great | Twi...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 232
Game Designer and author of The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design , Eric Zimmerman helps us discover how learning to play can keep us from being played. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses longtermism, metamodernism, and optimizing Twitter for a post-human future. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, What’s a Meta For? - part two , on Medium. Keep up with Eric Zimmerman: Website | Twitter 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support ...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 231
Writer and director of documentary and narrative films Noah Hutton helps us recognize the power and perfection in what might otherwise be considered our failings and mistakes. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses big tech’s search for the ultimate escape hatch. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, What’s a Meta For? - part one , on Medium. Keep up with Noah Hutton: Website | Twitter | Instagram 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listener...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 230
Journalist and author of C hokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back , Cory Doctorow shares his latest thoughts on the ways the economy and creativity are being hacked by the perpetrators of chokepoint capitalism. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how Elon Musk may have undermined both authoritarianism and his hopes for a techno-monarchy. 📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, How Elon Upstaged Trump , on Medium. 📖 C hoke...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 229
Douglas Rushkoff joins Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin, authors of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back, for a special panel recorded live from Ottawa International Writers Festival on October 24, 2022. 📖 C hokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back is now available. 📕 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available ...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 228
Comedian and Creator of the Deep Healing Podcast Greg Barris shares the open secret to collective healing: Laughing together. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff shares the real promise of shared virtual realities 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Now You See What I Mean , on Medium. 🎧 Learn more about Deep Healing with Greg Barris . For more about Greg Barris Twitter | Instagram 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon . Your ...
Nov 03, 2022•36 min•Ep. 227
Douglas Rushkoff joins author Stephen Oram, editor Benjamin Greenaway, and cofounder of Cyberia Eva Pascoe for a special conversation about speculative fiction in celebration of the release of CyberSalon’s 22 Ideas About The Future. How does speculative fiction help us reveal truths we may have hidden from ourselves? 🎙 This conversation was recorded live from London’s Newspeak House on Thursday, September 29, 2022. 📕 Learn more about 22 Ideas About The Future , available now. 🌍 Team Human is ...
Oct 19, 2022•48 min•Ep. 227
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the third Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. He fields questions from community members about Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires , the possibilities of Web3 after Ethereum’s swtich from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, and how we can find hope in entertainment. 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon . Your support will un...
Oct 06, 2022•56 min
Essayist and McLuhan archivist Clinton Ignatov helps us understand Marshall McLuhan - and ourselves - in the context of the media environments we inhabit and the metaphors we use to understand them. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how our desperate attempts at profiteering and monopolization render us all more vulnerable to death and disaster. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How Capitalism Makes Us Less Safe , on Medium. For more about Clinton Ignatov Twitter | ...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 224
Psychologist, sociologist, MIT Professor, and Author of Reclaiming Conversation and The Empathy Diaries , Sherry Turkle guest hosts Team Human in a special reverse interview to celebrate the release of Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires . Turkle helps Rushkoff share his experiences with the men behind The Mindset to understand them in the greater context of the fear of intimacy and quest for domination fueling so many of their exploits. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushko...
Sep 16, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 223
Douglas Rushkoff joins Medium's Adrienne Gibbs for a special Twitter Spaces conversation about the launch of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires . Originally recorded September 9, 2022. 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon . Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on the Team Human Team Feed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...
Sep 14, 2022•35 min
Multi-disciplinary artist and author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell conducts a rare reverse interview with Douglas Rushkoff to celebrate the launch of Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires . Odell interrogates the premise and purpose of. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires through the lens of her investigations about why we do what we do with technology. For more about Jenny Odell: Website | Twitter | ...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 222
On this week’s episode, Douglas Rushkoff offers a special excerpt of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. 📕 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available wherever books are sold! 🎧 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is produced by Record Books and narrated by Douglas Rushkoff. 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon . Your support ...
Sep 06, 2022•47 min•Ep. 221
Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation and Host of Tech Won’t Save Us Paris Marx helps us see how the future of transportation imagined by our techno-benefactors may best be understood as a collective dead end. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how laughter can be an antidote to help us view the mindset of tech billionaires. 📕 Road To Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation is now available wherever bo...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 220
The lighting genius behind Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen, experience designer, and artist Marc Brickman shows us how centering the person in the very last row of the theater makes the experience better for everyone. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains the mindset behind why tech billionaires fear artificial intelligence — and why going meta isn’t a winning strategy. Keep up with Marc Brickman: Instagram | Website 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listener...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 219
Playing for Team Human today, Co-Founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center and Senior Advisor to the Institute For The Future’s Equitable Enterprise Initiative, Janelle Orsi helps Rushkoff overcome his dream for a turn-key solution for greater wealth distribution. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how we can transcend both denial and distraction when the world seems to be coming apart. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, That Queasy Feeling , on Medium. 🌍 Team ...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 218
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the second Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. He fields questions from community members discussing how the ideals of the 1990s counterculture won, the role of religion in Team Human's mission, and why platform cooperatives have trouble scaling against venture capital-backed ventures. Recorded July 23, 2022. You can participate in the next live Kibbitz room inside the virtual Apocalypse Bunker on Friday...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 216
Author of Hawk Mountain and Host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib , Conner Habib shows us how shared stories and identification with each other’s trauma can help us find a new level of solidarity with one another. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why higher prices are not necessarily a bad thing. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Breaking News: Stuff Actually Costs a Lot , on Medium. 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listener...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 216
UNEP co-champions of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) Éliane Ubalijoro and David Jensen help us see how to marry big, top-down efforts with bottom-up reality. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us that no matter how bad things get, the basic principles of ethical behavior remain the same. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Don’t Change the Picture, Change Reality , on Medium. 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of...
Jul 20, 2022•53 min•Ep. 215
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the first live Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. He fields questions from community members discussing the different ways of acknowledging the value created and extracted by social media platforms, why algorithms tend to create fear-based affinity groups, and how to consider emerging technologies and Web3 for decentralized or cooperative governance. Recorded July 1, 2022. You can participate in the nex...
Jul 13, 2022•54 min•Ep. 214
Founder of Second Life and High Fidelity Labs Philip Rosedale discusses the misguided efforts fueling Web3 and helps us retrieve the original mission for immersive social platforms. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how speculators prevent crypto from working as a safe haven. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Tail Wagging The Doge , on Medium. 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon . Your support will unlock acc...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 213
