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Team Human - Douglas Rushkoff - 2019
By: Douglas Rushkoff
Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-22-19
Language: English
Genre: Science & Technology
Publisher: Recorded Books
Format: mp3 64/22.05 stereo
Publisher's 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.
©2019 Douglas Rushkoff (P)2018 Recorded Books
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