The Ripple Effect Podcast #109 (Douglas Rushkoff)

Nov 21, 2016

Douglas Rushkoff, author, media theorist, lecturer & documentarian who has been on shows like The Colbert Report, TED Talk, Frontline, Vice, The Joe Rogan Experience & many more. He was also # 6 on MIT’s most important public intellectuals.
Douglas returns to the show to talk about how civilization has been structured & different ways we can restructure it, the pros & cons of technology, how we can use technology to benefit civilization instead of it being mindless entertainment or another way for corporations to make money, we talk education, the future, the past and the present. We also talk about his most recent books ‘Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus’ and ‘Aleister & Adolf’ and his new podcast Team Human.

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