Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff's manifesto critiques how technologies and institutions often undermine human connection, turning money into exploitation and education into mere job training. He highlights the challenges posed by digital technologies, such as job loss to robots and social media's impact on democracy. Rushkoff calls for a collective effort to restore social bonds and foster humanity, urging a stand for a more connected and positive society.
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Brief Summary
"A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork." (Walter Isaacson)
Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff, digital theorist and host of the NPR-One podcast Team Human, reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity.
In 100 aphoristic statements, his manifesto exposes how forces for human connection have turned into ones of isolation and repression: Money, for example, has transformed from a means of exchange to a means of exploitation, and education has become an extension of occupational training. Digital-age technologies have only amplified these trends, presenting the greatest challenges yet to our collective autonomy: robots taking our jobs, algorithms directing our attention, and social media undermining our democracy. But all is not lost.
It's time for Team Human to take a stand, regenerate the social bonds that define us and, together, make a positive impact on this earth.
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