Trusting Tech Billionaires is a Recipe for Disaster w/ Douglas Rushkoff
12 08 22
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Trusting Tech Billionaires is a Recipe for Disaster
Douglas Rushkoff
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Douglas Rushkoff to discuss why internet visions of the 1990s were wrong to ignore corporate power, how the dot-com boom was like a Ponzi scheme, and why we desperately need to stop elevating tech billionaires.
Guest
Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His most recent book is Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires and he’s the host of Team Human podcast. You can follow him on Twitter at @rushkoff.
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Links
- An excerpt from Survival of the Richest was published in The Guardian.
- Paris was recently on the Team Human podcast to discuss Road to Nowhere with Douglas.