Douglas Rushkoff reflects on the importance of joy and human connection amid vast global suffering. He offers a poignant reminder to follow our bliss.

Names cited

Dan Savage, Joseph Campbell, Aleister Crowley, Ram Das

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Playing for Team Human today, Canadian pop artist, author, journalist, magician, and CEO of VOID Collective, Alex Kazemi.

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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 monologue, Probability Leads Only to Death on Medium.

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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: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide.

About Jessamyn West:

Jessamyn West is a library technologist from Randolph Vermont. She is a nationally known speaker, writer, and educator on the issues facing today's libraries. Her blog focusing on libraries and politics, Librarian.net, is one of the earliest and longest running librarian websites.

Keep up with Jessamyn West:

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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 of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. Mitch illuminates outsider history, explains its relevance to contemporary life, and reveals the longstanding quest to bring empowerment and agency to the human condition.

📕 Mitch Horowitz’s new book, Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences, is now available.

Keep up with Mitch Horowitz:

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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.

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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 CEO of Twitter, on Medium.

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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:

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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:

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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:

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Journalist and author of Chokepoint 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.

📖 Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back is now available.

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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.

📖 Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back is now available.

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Playing for Team Human today, activist, Blogger, and Director of the Reinventing the Commons

Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier.

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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.

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For more about Greg Barris

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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.

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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.

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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

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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, Rushkoff reflects on the release of Survival of the Richest and reminds us to engage with the ground —  not just the figure.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 books are sold.

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Resources mentioned on this episode:

Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff

Road To Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation - Paris Marx

Technopoly - Neil Postman

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Machine Age in the American City - Peter Norton

An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore

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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. 

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Playing for Team Human today, novelist, spiritualist and host of the podcast Against Everyone, my friend Conner Habib. This conversation continues tomorrow on Conner's podcast, Against Everyone.

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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.

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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, August 26 at 1 PM ET. Live from the Team Human community Discord server.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Founder of The Creative Arts Recruitment Squad and The Post Apocalypse School of Teesside Lisa Lovebucket shows us how learning to prepare for the worst may give us the resilience we need to avoid apocalypse altogether.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff asks us not to abandon people in red states.

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Actor, comedian, and Big Mouth creator Nick Kroll argues for the power of comedy in challenging times.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff wonders if adults may have lost the ability to tell our kids that our adult lives are better than their tortured adolescence.

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Rushkoff explores the ecosystem of the early internet, the transition from a passive-to-active media environment, and how digital technology disrupts legacy media gatekeepers in a preview of this week's bonus content, an interview Rushkoff did about Cyberia for KOPB public radio in 1994.

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The Connector journalist, activist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us find a better, healthier way to metabolize current events.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff offers a short, but concrete, set of answers about how we can confront our global crises.

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Has digital technology turned us all into fascists?

Rushkoff explores fascism as an environment in which we live, rather than the specific ideology of one "side." He shows how technology, psychedelics, and business are all "non-specific amplifiers," yielding different results depending on what we bring to them. He asks us to consider what would happen if we stopped seeing issues in terms of "sides," and why our current media and political environment makes that so difficult. How do we break the fascistic state of mind?

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Here's a preview of this week's bonus content: Douglas Rushkoff delivers a reading of Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace Rushkoff at Powell's Books in 1994.

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Author of Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace Sue Thomas helps us recognize and restore the nature in our technology.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reflects on Program or Be Programmed a decade after it was published.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Program or Be Programmed, on Medium.

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We always knew but now we know. The tech elite mean to leave us all behind. Tune in for a special announcement from Rushkoff about his new book, Survival of the Richest. Available everywhere September 6, 2022.

📕 Pre-order Survival of the Richest from your favorite local bookseller and request a copy from your local library.

📰 Read Rushkoff's book announcement, Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, on Medium.

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Postdoctoral Scholar in Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Neşe Devenot and Managing Editor of Psymposia David Nickles help us evaluate the current psychedelic renaissance, as well as those who may be abusing the power unleashed by the substances.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how psychedelics, like everything else, are political.

📰 Read a written version of Rushkoff's monologue, Avoiding the Power Trip, on Medium.

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How can we come to understand the human propensity to organize chaotic experiences into narrative, and our tendency to mistake our narratives for reality? Rushkoff explores in a talk originally delivered at Cyber Salon 2002.

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Writer, researcher, and curator at Advaya Hannah Close helps to bring us from mere reciprocity to true kinship.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how haggling holds us all together.

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How can we view Judaism as less of a religion and more of an approach to media and society? Rushkoff explains in an interview originally recorded April 2002. From KAOS radio, Olympia, Washington.

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Founder and Director of Longpath and author of the upcoming book, Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs, Ari Wallach discusses the fundamentally human need to belong, and how it will determine our collective chances for survival.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff stakes his future on the solidarity of the people over the cynicism of the elite.

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Here's an excerpt from a keynote talk Rushkoff delivered at Trend Day 2002, an annual conference presented by Der Spiegel. Rushkoff discusses how the advent of interactivity has rendered the main means of communication obsolete and why corporations feel threatened by people creating and enjoying their own content.

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President of the Center for the Study for Digital Life Mark Stahlman explains East, West, and Digital, the three spheres he believes are shaping the future of civilization, and how understanding the way they interact can help us strategize a way forward for humans.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why he’s not an optimist anymore.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, I’m Not an Optimist, on Medium.

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Playing for Team Human today, occult historian, author, and esotericist Mitch Horowitz, sharing the formulas that give us all access to Practical Magic.

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Here's an excerpt from a keynote talk Rushkoff delivered at the Silicon Alley Jewish Center in the early-2000s. Rushkoff explores the tenants of Judaism to learn if they can be applied to surveillance technology.

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Journalist, founder of Dot Dot Dot Media, and author of Special Characters: My Adventures with Tech's Titans and Misfits, Laurie Segall tells us what it’s like to interview people like Mark Zuckerberg, and why she holds out faith that their humanity may still rule the day.

🎙 In his monologue, discusses what we can do within our communities to help contribute to global crises.

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Science journalist and author of the forthcoming book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion, David McRaney explores the circumstances under which minds can change - and what it means for all of us.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff argues for the broad spectrum of reasons why humanity might have a special place in our universe.

📚 You can pre-order David’s new book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion, now.

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