Our guest this week is Douglas Rushkoff.
Douglas is named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals
by MIT. He’s an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a
digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Team Human,
based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing
Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc., and Media
Virus. He also made the PBS FRONTLINE documentaries, Generation Like,
The Persuaders, and The Merchants of Cool. He’s a professor of Media
Theory and Digital Economics at Queens College, a columnist for Medium,
and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D., and Aleister &
Adolf are all being developed for the screen. You can find him on
Twitter @rushkoff and Youtube.
