Humans vs. Technology (with Douglas Rushkoff)

Douglas Rushkoff and Jeff Schatten discuss the complex relationship between modern organizations and technology and the challenges that ubiquitous computing poses for individuals, business and democracy.

Douglas Rushkoff was named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Team Human, which we discuss on the podcast today.  Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media,” “screenagers,” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice.  He is a columnist for Medium, technology and media commentator for CNN, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future, and a lecturer on media, technology, culture and economics around the world. He has written and hosted three award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries.  Douglas is a professor of media theory and digital economics at CUNY Queens.