Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Present Shock

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jan 2016 – the future of work:

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Oh look @rushkoff is being awesome again.  https://t.co/OXFeeRCfTN

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Annemcx/status/698240098639466501

@rushkoff

In the Throes of Change: An Interview With Douglas Rushkoff blog.p2pfoundation.net/throes-change-…

https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/throes-change-interview-douglas-rushkoff/2016/02/16

it’s the same old economy on digital steroids.

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So the problem is that everyone is keen on creating new operating systems for one thing or another, but no one is questioning the bigger operating system on which all of this is occurring: capitalism.

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My whole point is that the new renaissance is not a period of growth. We transcend the whole idea of growth (grow what? the economy? at whose expense? the planet’s?). And instead, we learn how to prosper in a more circulatory, “steady state” economy.

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A renaissance means old, repressed ideas being reborn (re-naissance) in a new context. ……….. Today’s renaissance would retrieve the medieval values (not the lifestyle!) that were stamped out by the renaissance: crafts, peer-to-peer trading at the market, local value creation…even craft beers! Really, it’s no coincidence that the cultural expressions of the digital age – like Burning Man and etsy – share so many medieval qualities.

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rocks at google bus interview.. feb 2016 – vision for a new, better world

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/15982/douglas-rushkoff-throwing-rocks-at-the-google-bus-interview/

In his new work he argues that, appearances to the contrary, today’s online colossi—think Facebook, Google, Apple, and the like—haven’t truly revolutionized our economy. Instead, they’ve reproduced the Industrial Age corporation at a global scale, with all the benefits of digital innovation. At heart, though, they’re still designed to extract value and to pursue growth above all else.

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Digital technology was supposed to distribute this wealth to more people, not impoverish the many for the wealth of a few.

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requirement for companies to grow really traces all the way back to the institution of interest-bearing currency, which requires that the economy grow in order for that interest to be paid back.

Today, the equivalent of those bankers are shareholders. They expect not just interest, but tremendous returns on their initial investments.

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The CEOs of these companies read my articles about getting out of the growth trap, and they call me begging for the way out.

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I do believe that networking technologies could enable much more distributed prosperity. The digital economy, so far, is just corporate industrialism on steroids: extract value from people and places. Digital companies are like software programmed to take currency out of circulation, and deliver it up to shareholders. They could just as easily—more easily, in fact—be optimized to promote the circulation of currency. Most simply stated, less like Amazon, more like eBay. It’s as simple as letting Uber drivers have shares in the company, proportionate to the amount of work they’ve done. And that would be pretty easy to calculate and authenticate with something like a blockchain. Networking technologies are biased toward more distributed solutions. That’s what they were originally built for.

? so operating system is still based on money..? still based on calculating/measuring transactions..?

imagining blockchain,www, io,… beyond that.

Every town whose economy has been trashed by a corporation is another community about to learn that the only things you need for a thriving economy are people with skills and people with needs.

The moment we stop optimizing the digital economy for the growth of capital, and optimize it for the circulation of value between people, everything will start to get better really fast.

indeed.

let’s do thisfirst: free art-ists.

for (blank)’s sake…

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mar 2016 – why to rethink purpose of our econ

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/digital-industrialism-why-we-need-to-rethink-the-purpose-of-our-economy/

Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s new book offers insight into ‘digital industrialism,’ how humans have become invisible, and why the US needs to re-evaluate the goals of its current economic model.

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“We have lost track of the purpose of our economy,” Rushkoff wrote.

According to Rushkoff, our never-ending appetite for economic “growth” has become unsustainable—and, a misguided end goal. Rushkoff sees us living in a period of “digital industrialism,” marked by a “disproportionate relationship between capital and value.” Web-based companies are creating platforms, but not necessarily value—at least, a value that can keep up with the venture capital backing they’ve received.

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As a result, businesses are increasingly trying to monetize “likes” and big data, making people the end product, rather than creating value that consumers can use. The payoff comes not through a sustainable income, but when the platform is sold to a big spender—when Huffington Post was sold to AOL, for instance—creating artificial bubbles.

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Rushkoff traces the current values of digital industrialism to an age where monarchs began shutting down bazaars, which had originated as places for townspeople to trade goods and crafts in a peer-to-peer networking fashion. Fearing that the lower classes would gain power, the aristocracy regained control. All along, the working class has been stripped of its power to create, which extended to the industrial age where workers became shuffled into factories, performing low-skill labor.

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“This income disparity is not a fact of nature or an accident of capitalism,” he wrote, “but part of its central code,” he wrote.

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“Joblessness may be a feature, not bug, of new economy,” he wrote.

graeber jobless law

Ironically, Rushkoff sees web-based peer-to-peer sharing platforms like Uber and Airbnb has eventually eliminating the human element. ….”Peer-to-peer is not a means of including people, but a prelude to getting rid of them,” Rushkoff wrote.

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What he would like to see happen? “I think, rather than a simple revolution, we get a renaissance. A genuine rebirth of repressed ideas and mechanisms,” Rushkoff said.

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“It’s different than a second machine age. It’s people getting their hands back into things and starting to value the human contribution over the mechanical contributions to things.”

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@rushkoff

Three experimental systems for making money about trust, not wealth theatlantic.com/business/archi…

reimagining money

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/douglas-rushkoff-reimagining-money/472335/

Bitcoin was conceived as a modern solution to an ages-old problem: How can two parties agree on and verify an exchange of value?….But in important ways, Bitcoin transposes some of the shortcomings of traditional currency onto the digital realm. It ignores a whole host of questions about the potential to reimagine what money can be designed to emphasize: ……..how can money be less an extractor of value and more a utility for its exchange?

ie’s:

1\local currencies, .. Massachusetts BerkShare…The 5-percent local discount may seem like a huge disadvantage to take on—but only if businesses think of themselves as competing individuals. In the long term, the discount is more than compensated for by the fact that BerkShares can circulate only locally.

2\cooperative community currencies don’t need to be pegged to the dollar at all. …They are not purchased into existence but are worked into circulation. They are best thought of less like money than like exchanges,.. simplest form of cooperative currency is a favor bank, such as those founded in Greece and other parts of southern Europe during the Euro crisis..had no cash with which to trade. So they built simple, secure trading websites—mini-eBays—where people offered their goods and services to others in return for the goods and services they needed…“time dollars,” a currency system that keeps track of how many hours people contribute to one another. (larger communities) Again, a simple exchange is set up on a website, where people list what they need and what they can contribute. The bigger and more anonymous a community, the more security and verification is required… e Japanese recession gave rise to one of the most successful time exchanges yet, called Fureai Kippu, or “Caring Relationship Tickets.” People no longer had enough cash to pay for their parents’ or grandparents’ health-care services—but because they had moved far away from home to find jobs, they couldn’t take care of their relatives themselves either. The Fureai Kippu exchange gave people the ability to bank hours of eldercare by taking care of old people in their communities, which they could then spend to get care for their own relatives far away.

3\traditional bank becomes a community partner, helping a local region invest in itself. …. bank transforms itself from an agent of debt to a catalyst for distribution and circulation. Like money in a digital age, it becomes less a thing of value in itself than a way of fostering the value creation and exchange of others.

back to tweet – can money (measurement of transaction).. be about trust..? seems too calculated for what i think trust wants to be..

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@rushkoff

Talking #ThrowingRocks at @Codecademy with @TechTimes_Newsow.ly/ZulNa

How Growth Became The Enemy of Prosperity. (video) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fwlnCzG3aU

digital age doesn’t just push us into some crazy future.. but retrieves some really old/lost/precious values from the past.. not just little cultural whims.. but hints of society unfolding before us.. dig society actually looks like something very local/real/hands on

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@rushkoff

My @CivicHall@BookTV talk on #ThrowingRocks now online: c-span.org/video/?405760-…

on surrendering disruptions..

5 min – govt can change nature of regulations.. – right now it favors the largest…

11 min – huge focus on companies..

20 min – human scaled economies are local..

21 min – activity supports each other in community

22 min – the attention getting media.. we currently employ.. are not best for telling (local) stories

23 min – i’m actually becoming ok with global media being disconnected freak show.. if i a have a real life of actual connections w/other people

24 min – big picture – we’re reasserting the human agenda.. get people to join team human…

a nother way

nationality: human

29 min – if you have people with needs and people with skills.. that’s all you need for an economy

31 min – not an app to fix this.. (interviewer – ie: loomio not that complicated.. it’s about the people coming together and working on the rules..et al)

simple enough

the way in which we make decisions is going to be more algorithmic..

? – redefine decision making…

not a matter of better encryption .. but of better listening…

self talk as data

32 min – on getting people together… and how to fund twitter.. could go private..

or… get rid of money

c (dot) app story

find the others.. meet up – get people connecting in real places off line

find tribe ness

34 min – tech should get us together and get out of the way..

app chip ness – as the day

io dance ness

36 min – make more choices on a local scale…. some things industrial good at – power plants.. but not so much farming.. get back to permaculture

perhaps.. – same with power plant ness..

38 min – winco – a walmart coop

44 min – if it has a growth imperative.. then hasn’t found right size/model yet

46 min – say what you want about net neutrality.. it’s already gone… you’ve got to talk to the humans.. your community… i wouldn’t call it an affinity group.. it’s got to be so targeted/tagged/specific… address a need not being met.. then people will come

49 min – global space.. more idea based than commerce based.. easier to disseminate an idea/plans to a lot of diff places…

51 min – by getting govt off (web)… opened up for corp.. and they took over.. now when we say global.. so many think we mean global markets…  that was just imperialism by another name… internet still a global network and has potential to disseminate ideas..

53 min – that’s the one thing we humans have.. a home field advantage on planet earth…

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Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with Institute for the Future’s Marina Gorbis https://t.co/UP3eLyLqZk

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/rushkoff/status/714541854709182464

interview with Marina Gorbis:

http://boingboing.net/2016/03/28/douglas-rushkoff-in-conversati.html

3 min – the people building digital tools/companies.. didn’t recognize they were working on top of another os – corp capitalism

8 min – on pivot ness.. ie: amazon not interested in people reading.. but using that as a place you can pivot from…

11 min – on forcing twitter to pivot…. to become like ie: facebook…

so not allowed to distribute wealth.. not allowed… in old corp system..

15 min – money is just another medium… an os

22 min – digital tech is burning out corporatism..

23 min – blockchain and bitcoin.. original fb brothers.. go other way…

bitcoin – what are they solving for… they weren’t solving for right problem.. it’s not engendering trust between people.. it’s substituting for trust in a new way.. the part that gets interesting is the blockchain – let’s people authenticate w/o central authority.. we use a public ledger

? – isn’t that substituting for trust in another way? – but not trusting..

bitcoin by just being able to do that .. puts traditional authenticators and gate keepers on notice.. that we can do it w/o them

don’t have to use a blockchain to make sure platform is going to extract too much… but the fact that we can do it restores faith in what we can do….. on saying – there’s all these things we can do that aren’t being counted…

– i’m more interested in getting things off the books than on…

B ness (computer too slow to add lines… just now… another reason for chip doing it)

everything is so verified.. we lose the ambiguity to get on… we can no longer create slack.. that wiggle room that makes for a community and makes for fun.. we mistake those metrics for what’s actually happening...

29 min – jobs: making stuff that nobody even wants…. purpose of having a job – not in order to get stuff done that we need.. it’s so we can justify letting you partake of spoils of industrial capitalism

rushkoff job law

30 min – the market place isn’t something you gamify.. it’s already gamified.. it’s a game .. and we can change the rules…

31 min – platform coops give me hope.. like uber getting to own the platform

32 min – on having to do the meta thing.. don’t scale.. scale is the obligation of growth based.. instead .. you want to sustain

34 min – what gives me hope – people doing small things.. set sights on something different.. gotten off the fame wagon… invest the homefield advantage of planet earth

42 min –  no one size fits all solution.. you come up for the particular solution for your space…

indeed.. so design os for that.. www, io,..

44 min – locally doesn’t happen at scale… it works because you are part of the living community together…

45 min – do i understand that my phone is using 2 refrigerator’s worth of electricity.. on all the servers and things i’m pulling on… yet designed to look super clean…. land, labor, and capital.. and now os that’s only focus on capital… we have to re incorporate land and labor..

46 min – college has the same role as art.. to help you step out of the cultural narrative.. and see it as a social construction rather than as a condition of nature… ie: race, gender, ethnicity, econ, …

47 min – you don’t train kids for jobs… you train them to invent.. who wants a job anyway…

b  ness

48 min – we should figure out a way to get through this world w/o needing a job..

indeed: a nother way

49 min – everyone of our social platforms is currently configured to reduce human spontaneity… they make more money the more predictable we are.. 

but more predictable.. the less human ambiguity we need to think our way out of this drone/lemming like march off the cliff..

idio jargon ness

51 min – if giving 90% of money back.. means took too much to being with

54 min – i only want to use platforms that i understand.. otherwise probably being used.. ie: that i understand who the customer is

55 min – i have no time for this.. i have to earn money to live on

57 min – digital is to talk to people far away.. then get back in the world… if you’re hiding online… use that time to make the world a better place.. so don’t need that..

and/or – selves that are far away…  because of 2 needs/desires… then.. ie: self-talk as data – as the day

58 min – trump has exposed market driven journalism…

1:02 – thinking is no longer singular.. really no point in lying because they know it subconsciously.. if everybody knows … how would you act differently.. there’s nothing to hide.. no shame… what if move toward.. non personal.. non owned… we are all neurons in a big global brain.. what if we thought that was true.... for me it’s a relief….

1:04 – what corporatism thrives on is the illusion of your individuality.. your separate ness..

interconnectedness – ni – rewire – small world network – et al

which was invented in the renaissance.. the gentlemen sitting alone in his room… if we begin to unwind that and say…

if everybody knows where we’re at.. what can we do next… well what we don’t know.. is what we can do together….

in all my years of striving what i’ve learned is.. to stop striving.. 

the last thing i want to do is actualize myself… (maslow) – get self out of way and start looking at human potential as a team sport…

fav one yet… grazie

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on big think

http://bigthink.com/videos/douglas-rushkoff-on-the-internet-and-the-future-of-business

on history: bazaar.. small businesses… then make laws 1\ can’t be a small business.. have to work for king  2\ can’t transact direct.. have to borrow money – so… need for growth… to pay back interest…

internet currency .. was our attention..

pivot is not to do something better, all a pivot means is you’re going to abandon what your original business was in order to come up with something that’s sellable to the next round of investors, the next round of suckers really.

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IFTF: Douglas Rushkoff joins IFTF as Research Fellow https://t.co/tD8vupL1Nw via @sharethis

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/rushkoff/status/736009273961000960

oh. please be bold enough to go crazy enough.

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personal democracy 2016

rushkoff:

we all mean well – i’m not critical of intentions.. – @rushkoff #PDF16

os beneath the os of tech’s we’re all using is corp capitalism – to externalize costs to other people. our money system is extractive

if capital is only one that gets to talk .. what happens to land.. labor.. we just digitized corp program.. and now we’re saying.. let’s get govt on their too..

what does it mean if all those guys in suits are clapping for you.. a forced pivot is coming

problem w this arrangement.. it forces companies to extract value rather than circulate..

don’t think people really see tech as hero.. people are literally throwing rocks.. because can’t live in towns anymore

we have a tax policy that is optimized for extractive value not the distributive value

we want to retrieve p2p culture… common culture.. w/o human intervention and focus on solidarity.. we let the tools run the world for us.

platforms are optimized for attention.. sensationalism.. filter bubbles.. the externalization of those i don’t want to see.

whole point of democracy is not externalizing anything … but opposite embedded in tools we’re using..

john barlow – declaration of independence of cyber space.. anti govt.. get off our internet.. i understand why he did that.. what happens when you get govt off platform.. we got corporatism.. so we lost the net..

i understand.. we went from open web to kind of closed fb.. and skewed search results.. but do we really want to fight about that… the web was supposed to make the world more open.. now we’re fighting to make web more open..

blockchain doesn’t engender trust.. it perpetuates mistrust baked into system run by cap

solidarity happens in the real world.. the way we get there is how we get there

rev of everyday life

here in real world is only place we humans have home field advantage.. to accommodate to digital

democracy is a verb.. what we do..

we shouldn’t end.. period is going out of style.. the good: this ending is not the period.. unlike tech we humans are alive

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@AndersonBell

The new nationalism of Brexit and Trump is a symptom of the digital age: fastcoexist.com/3061574/the-na… by @rushkoff via @FastCoExist

when we combine these two biases—boundaries and memories—we get Brexiters justifying isolation as a confirmation of distinctly British values and the return to a nationalist era, when foreigners and other non-whites knew their place. Trump’s followers, likewise, recall a clearly redlined past when being white and American meant enjoying a safe neighborhood, a sense of superiority, and guaranteed place in the middle class. Immigrants were fellow Irish and Italians—not foreigners, refugees, or terrorists leaking illegally across permeable national boundaries.

two things that could make us… but as pointed our here.. can also break us..

memex ness and binary ness

host life bits to live alive.. not to binary-ize

In some sense, those of us who want to preserve the one-world vision of the TV media environment are the ones who must stop looking back. If we’re going to promote connection, tolerance, and progressive internationalism, we’ll have to do it in a way that’s more consonant with the digital media environment in which we are actually living.

rev of everyday life ness

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team human

@rushkoff

Secret beta-soft-launch of my new podcast, #TeamHuman, now up at teamhuman.fmOur last best hope for peeps.

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@rushkoff

New post at Rushkoff.com “Team Human: Our Last Best Hope for Peeps” #throwingrocksrushkoff.com/team-human-las…

It’s time we forge the solidarity we need to press for the human agenda – without shame or embarrassment.

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Céline (@krustelkram) tweeted at 5:49 AM – 27 Sep 2016 :

Great interview. @rushkoff about zombies, occupy and the problem with UBI https://t.co/cF11LtxCaV(http://twitter.com/krustelkram/status/780736037630971905?s=17)

And I’m still working on this problem, since I believe that food, housing, and medical care are basic human rights for which you shouldn’t need a job, but I don’t like how guaranteed minimum income becomes an excuse for more exploitation of those at the bottom, and a new two-tiered society.

yes.. bi could jump start us.. but we have to plan for it to disappear.. plan for money.. any measuring of transactions to disappear.. like you say.. we can’t have money as os..

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The other thing I’ve been thinking, almost musing on, is that originally the net was where we counterculture people went find a safe haven. And now that the net is utterly infected by corporate interests, we find refuge out here in the real world. The losers are running around online for fear of missing out, and all their getting is the honor of being data-raped. Those of us in the real world are having flesh experiences as well as high bandwidth intellectual encounters that make anything online pale by comparison. That’s part of why I’m conducting most of my interviews for Team Human in real life.

and too. we have to plan for f to f ness.. ie: use mech (placebo ish.. temporary.. like bi) that encourages us to get back together.

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I wanted to do something completely devoid of market considerations—….That means adopting a more natural rhythm, producing episodes as we want to rather than to meet some official schedule, and just not worrying about how this fits into some business plan.

Really, I’ve learned that the market as it’s currently configured, and human life, are at odds. Without intervention, the market will kill humanity.

a nother way.. for (blank)’s sake

from video

9 min – the object of the game is not to have an object of the game.. not to win but to develop a sustainable model..

the minute you put on t shirt .. no longer real

cohesion w/o centrality.. w/o succumbing to that desperate need to belong

occupations are little models for us.. ie: occupy town means figuring out how your town can create value

a net style movement..  p2p.. ability to tolerate not having an ending.. but a series of connections.. beginnings..

rev of everyday life… instigating utopia.. everyday..

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in David Passiak‘s empower:

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on london real – with Brian

[https://www.facebook.com/rushkoff/videos/1370018456415570/]

all we have is attention

attention

as if efficiency really is the goal.. if we really want efficiency.. just get rid of the humans all together..

efficiency

i think the turning point is redefining econ system.. ie: twitter as successful

present shock.. constant now now now .. and you feel that you need to catch up

drone pilot more ptsd – because breaking up into pieces.. and parallel processing.. that’s a computer thing.. people can’t do that..

1\ living in a sense of perpetual emergency interruption.. so do tech in your own time

2\ go out side enough to at least look at the moon

i don’t think there’s any effort by western nations to stop this (terrorism).. the allegiances are too strange.. deals w govts et al.. i don’t think we’re genuinely focused on that problem

12 yr old – have skin in game.. and became harder for me to make money w/o selling out… so i do yoga as my practice..

advice to 20 yr old: there’s nothing to work towards.. it’s happening right now.. we live in such a carrot and stick society.. it’s right now.. your integrity is in the moment.. there’s infinity in the moment if you can embrace this as that instead of a step..

supposed to ness

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mar 2018 interview

https://www.robhopkins.net/2018/03/12/douglas-rushkoff-weve-disabled-the-cognitive-and-collaborative-skills-needed-to-address-climate-change/

Human imagination derives from something other than repeated experience..t

imagination ness

That real creativity, and real imagination, provides less answers than it provokes questions.  It initiates a process that most people today can’t tolerate because they want conclusion.  They want answers.  They want endings.  Imagination doesn’t do that.  Imagination opens things.  It creates questions.  Imagination is not death.  It’s life.  Most people don’t like life.  They want the security of death.

because they/we’re intoxicated.. not natural.. not really us.. ie: black science of people/whales law

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Cool new interview with me by musician James Toth:

https://t.co/pzyDqAQiRO

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/rushkoff/status/972222639233208322

art is about creating questions.. opening up the gaps and ambiguities

i think the coherence you long for is less a matter of denying yourself the digital than it is one of enhancing the lived, analog, person-to-person aspects of life.. t.. the screen has less power if you’ve just had a great orgasm, looking into your lover’s eyes.. focus on the physical, the breathing together, the solidarity, the bodies in space.

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advisor to econ space w : Vinay, Ben, Douglas, Esko, Marina, Brett, ..

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via joi

Joi Ito (@Joi) tweeted at 1:03 PM on Fri, Jul 06, 2018:
“Survival of the Richest” – classic @rushkoff – ties into a lot of my recent thinking – good reading https://t.co/HcLbfP3QHj
(https://twitter.com/Joi/status/1015310269793398784?s=03)

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader?

they were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether and insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape..t

As technology philosophers have been pointing out for years, now, the transhumanist vision too easily reduces all of reality to data, concluding that “humans are nothing but information-processing objects.”..t

rowson mechanical law

The future became less a thing we create through our present-day choices or hopes for humankind than a predestined scenario we bet on with our venture capital but arrive at passively.

This freed everyone from the moral implications of their activities.

Digital platforms have turned an already exploitative and extractive marketplace (think Walmart) into an even more dehumanizing successor (think Amazon).

Ultimately, according to the technosolutionist orthodoxy, the human future climaxes by uploading our consciousness to a computer or, perhaps better, accepting that technology itself is our evolutionary successor.

The mental gymnastics required for such a profound role reversal between humans and machines all depend on the underlying assumption that humans suck. Let’s either change them or get away from them, forever.

rather.. set us all free.. and assume good

 the result will be less a continuation of the human diaspora than a lifeboat for the elite.

when the hedge funders asked me the best way to maintain authority over their security forces after “the event,” I suggested that their best bet would be to treat those people really well, right now..t

gershenfeld sel

All this technological wizardry could be applied toward less romantic but entirely more collective interests right now..t

as it could be.. ie: 2 convos as infra

ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance.. as the day..[aka: not part\ial.. for (blank)’s sake…]..  a nother way

 For all their wealth and power, they don’t believe they can affect the future. They are simply accepting the darkest of all scenarios and then bringing whatever money and technology they can employ to insulate themselves — especially if they can’t get a seat on the rocket to Mars.

Luckily, those of us without the funding to consider disowning our own humanity have much better options available to us..the truly evolved human doesn’t go it alone.

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futurefest18

“Humanity is not the problem, humanity is the solution!” @rushkoff #FutureFest18 

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/MeaningConf/status/1015569358075125763

humanity as in free humans

do this first: free art\ists

meadows undisturbed ecosystem

‘Don’t escape the future, jump in! First step to occupy the future is to find the others’ @rushkoff

#TeamHuman #FutureFest18 @futurefest https://t.co/r2RD65JvJY

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/JulKampasi/status/1015572944012169216

2 convos as infra

(finds via daily cure ios city)

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Nonprofit Quarterly (@npquarterly) tweeted at 10:03 AM on Tue, Jul 10, 2018:
“If efficiency requires us to send slaves into caves to extract metals and create toxic waste that destroys the planet…then maybe we should be less efficient.” https://t.co/xithmpgWdK @rushkoff
(https://twitter.com/npquarterly/status/1016714489222324224?s=03)

So, today we live in an economy where we understand that to have a successful business you need to borrow money from someone and then pay them back bigger returns.

Thus, what I’m suggesting to large corporations is that they change their business model—that instead of thinking about how much of the world they can own, instead they look at what services they can provide people and organizations and companies and towns and cities.

Bitcoin basically burns fossil fuels as proof that it has value, and that’s all bitcoin is doing. So, not only do we have an energy shortage on the planet, now we also burn energy symbolically as a way of showing our commitment to some kind of digital coin.

No one likes hearing this, but nonprofits have to stop thinking of themselves as some adjunct to the market—as something other than business. Nonprofits are businesses. Nonprofits are a better model for doing business than for-profit companies. The only difference between a nonprofit company and a for-profit company is that a nonprofit company can’t be sold.

Right now, we have an economy that punishes doing business in an appropriate, generative way, and rewards people who just take money out of the system.

I think of human beings the same way—that we’re all part of this large team, this human organism. And even if we’re not part of one organism, we’d better start acting like we’re part of one organism, because we’re sharing a scarce resource of planetary abundance. So,

if we don’t orient to the planet as a commons rather than a property, then we’re going to continue to exploit it at our peril rather than maintain it for our collective benefit..t

ch 6 – assembly.. on property ness

When you understand platform cooperatives…well, UBI is kind of silly. You shouldn’t give people only income; you’ve got to give people ownership..t

ownership silly as well.. if common ing

we are working in ways that are unsustainable, anyway. If the way we’re using labor requires us to send slaves into caves to get the rare earth metals for our smartphones—and if the way we manufacture is destroying the planet, is creating so much toxic waste and mountains of used-up technology that’s being buried in China and South America, and that’s going to destroy everything—if that’s what we have to externalize to be this efficient, then we should be less efficient.

kelly efficiency law

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via michel fb share

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Patrick Farnsworth (@LastBornPodcast) tweeted at 11:30 AM – 14 Aug 2018 :
⁦@Rushkoff⁩ discusses ‘Whistleblowing, Assange, & The End Of Democracy’ ⁦@wikileaks⁩ https://t.co/YLpu3ekkjY (http://twitter.com/LastBornPodcast/status/1029420057552535553?s=17)

now i think he’s (assange) more of a political operative than an info giver..

the transparency of internet is slowing eroding the back room politics.. and maybe the left wing democracy.. whether or not democracy works.. was it a failed experiment

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letter to google employees

douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) tweeted at 7:29 AM on Fri, Aug 17, 2018:
I just published “Dear Google Employees” https://t.co/SPzR45Bmuy
(https://twitter.com/rushkoff/status/1030446404706025472?s=03)

Congratulations on your letter questioning the morality and impact of the censored search engine you were building for China. You are courageously leveraging your power as developers to insist on participating in decisions about how that power is deployed. You are the human beings who have intervened in the machine.

[..]

ou also requested employee participation in ethical reviews of company decisions, and a group of representatives to make ethical assessments of controversial projects.

I believe at least some of those representatives should come from outside the company, and I humbly offer to serve.

[..]

But, as you have said, you need evaluators with expertise in crucial sectors of human activity impacted by your work.

[..]

In addition to myself, I’d suggest Dan Gillmor for his knowledge of the relationship of technology to journalism and free speech; Tim Wu, for his understanding of the attention economy; Astra Taylor, for the relationship of platforms to art production and debt; Larry Lessig for questions of IP and the law; Alicia Garza for her expertise in social justice and activism; Tristan Harris, for the impact of software on behavior and cognition; Marina Gorbis to look at economic inequality; Palak Shah and Trebor Scholz to represent digital labor; Richard Maxwell for effects of technology on the environment, and so on.

astra.. larry.. alicia.. tristan.. marina.. trebor..

Such a committee of people who have been studying the impact of digital technology on essential human rights can use their understanding of larger systems to help you apply your work in ways consistent with your values.

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IFTF (@iftf) tweeted at 3:28 PM – 27 Sep 2018 :
“We have to stop optimizing humans for the market, and start optimizing technology for humans” @rushkoff at #TYF18 #teamhuman https://t.co/4YRgH3ZJ86 (http://twitter.com/iftf/status/1045425067398778880?s=17)

imagining tech as it could be.. ie: listening to and facilitating 7bn curiosities.. everyday

IFTF (@iftf) tweeted at 3:28 PM – 27 Sep 2018 :
“We stopped valuing human beings for their creativity, and only valuing their data.” @rushkoff at #TYF18 #teamhuman https://t.co/PAi2YKfBnH (http://twitter.com/iftf/status/1045424975937703936?s=17)

imagining self-talk as data via cure ios city

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douglas on (against) ubi and for asset ness

douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) tweeted at 9:05 AM on Wed, Oct 10, 2018:
I used to be a fan of Universal Basic Income. Then, I gave a talk at Uber.
https://t.co/Nc4tSQXDbB
(https://twitter.com/rushkoff/status/1050039591884021760?s=03)

Shouldn’t we applaud the developers at Uber — as well as other prominent Silicon Valley titans like Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, bond investor Bill Gross, and Y Combinator’s Sam Altman — for coming to their senses and proposing we provide money for the masses to spend? Maybe not. Because to them, UBI is really just a way for them to keep doing business as usual..t

When people eventually become too poor to continue working as drivers or paying for rides, UBI supplies the required cash infusion for the business to keep operating. t

exactly.. 1\ it feeds the system but also 2\ it (the measuring ness of it) compromises the human spirit

To the rescue comes UBI. The policy was once thought of as a way of taking extreme poverty off the table. In this new incarnation, however, it merely serves as a way to keep the wealthiest people (and their loyal vassals, the software developers) entrenched at the very top of the economic operating system. Because of course, the cash doled out to citizens by the government will inevitably flow to them.

Meanwhile, UBI also obviates the need for people to consider true alternatives to living lives as passive consumers. *Solutions like platform cooperatives, alternative currencies, favor banks, or employee-owned businesses, which actually threaten the status quo under which extractive monopolies have thrived, will seem unnecessary. Why bother signing up for the revolution if our bellies are full? Or just full enough?

i would say.. those aren’t *solutions.. not deep enough.. they too perpetuate the status quo.. of us measuring each other.. measuring transactions.. that’s poison to the soul

No, income is nothing but a booby prize. If we’re going to get a handout, we should demand not an allowance but assets. That’s right: *an ownership stake.

no no no.. *ownership is poison to the soul as well

h&n property law..

The wealth gap in the United States has less to do with the difference between people’s salaries than their assets.

doesn’t matter.. both are unhealthy

No amount of short-term entitlements substitute for real assets because *once the money is spent, it’s gone — straight to the very people who already enjoy an excessive asset advantage.

what we want to go after is eudaimoniative surplus.. refilling our missing pieces/holes

*assets can be gone just as easy – we need to go after something that doesn’t burn out..but rather something that makes us come alive.. and keeps us alive..  ie: cure ios city..  because what the world needs most to get there.. is the energy of 7bn alive people

Likewise, if Silicon Valley’s UBI fans really wanted to repair the economic operating system, they should be looking not to universal basic income but universal basic assets, first proposed by Institute for the Future’s Marina Gorbis. As she points out, *in Denmark — where people have public access to a great portion of the nation’s resources .t— a person born into a poor family is just as likely to end up as wealthy as peers born into a wealthier household.

i’d go for universal basic *access.. not assets.. the ownership piece is killer.. huge diff

link to marina’s uba:

In designing Universal Basic Assets we take into account access to traditional physical and financial assets like land and money, as well as the growing pools of digital assets (data, digital currencies, reputations, etc.). We also recognize and assign value to exchanges we engage in as a part of maintaining the social fabric of our society but that do not currently carry with them monetary value (caring, creative output, knowledge generation, etc.).

digital currencies.. reputations.. value exchanges.. anything that is measuring us.. and our transactions.. all killers..

(ubi) It’s hush money.

Whether its proponents are cynical or simply naive, UBI is not the patch we need. A weekly handout doesn’t promote economic equality — much less empowerment. The only meaningful change we can make to the economic operating system is to *distribute ownership, control, and governance of the real world to the people who live in it.

rather..  just *distribute haves/needs.. (no measuring.. just listening).. which will be greatly reduced once all 7bn+ people are doing the thing they can’t not do.. holes filled..

ubi as temp placebo.. but just so that people don’t think about money/measuring for long enough for it to become irrelevant

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mostly on voting

Imran Ali (@imran) tweeted at 4:05 AM – 6 Nov 2018 :
“My friend… when will you be ready to accept that the experiment of democracy has been proven a failure?” https://t.co/drbQ0CYUBAby @rushkoff (http://twitter.com/imran/status/1059763720757358592?s=17)

do we have to accept the sad premise that people are just too dumb, too uninformed, and too easily fooled to vote intelligently or even rationally?

rather.. to think that voting is our only option.. or that it is even humane

Lippmann wrote a book, Public Opinion, in which he reluctantly concluded that the masses *(that’s all of us) were indeed incapable of understanding what was going in the world, much less making intelligent decisions on our own behalf

We, the people, can’t be truly entrusted with evaluating or actually deciding anything consequential.

It’s not about finding out how we feel, but getting us to feel the way that serves our best interests—as determined by our benevolent leaders.

Here’s a radical idea: What if Democrats acted, instead, as if they actually believed in democracy: the ability of American citizens to understand issues and make choices informed by logic..t

What if they stated what they believe in, policy-wise—made their case—and counted on the process to work..t

But real democracy demands an informed electorate..t

This midterm election, we still have a chance to remember what it is we’re doing this for. What this is really about. Our role in this process and whether we are up for the challenge

the only way we can effectively defend ourselves against the folks on both sides who would underestimate our intelligence, our competence, and our collective will is to vote.

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dang.. team human live w pesce..  missing it guys

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interview on team human book.. douglas rushkoff with sam harris

douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) tweeted at 11:23 AM on Thu, Jan 17, 2019:
I got on the @SamHarrisOrg podcast! What a treat. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. He’s super patient and gently challenging. Makes me want to meditate more.  https://t.co/I5z91HmqcP
(https://twitter.com/rushkoff/status/1085965810009550848?s=03)

So glad my first big interview about my new bookwas with the brilliant @SamHarrisOrgHe very quickly honed in on the real opponent of TeamHuman: digital capitalism. https://t.co/I5z91HmqcP

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/rushkoff/status/1086633417779957761

3 min – d: i guess what i do is argue from human agency in the digital age

4 min – d: tools i thought were going to be a gateway to collective human imagination ended up being opposite.. haven’t been not struggling against tech so much but to retrieve the human

6 min – d: there’s certain things i’m unresolved.. challenged by

8 min – d: what i’m looking for are essential human values for people to value for its own sake.. w/o.. some other story

9 min – s: language is source of everything we do as human.. this compulsive conceptionalizing thru language.. is in most cases.. the limiting factor on our well being.. yet can’t have civilization w/p full linguistic competence.. just mere intro of print was bemoaned by many as way to lose our memory

civilization..?

15 min – d: orgs that are doing it.. mozilla, archive.org, wikipedia, .. but they’re not co’s.. only co’s i’ve seen doing that are co-ops..

23 min – on podcasts or talks that you do for free getting more reach than books.. expecting info to be free.. on netflix as paywalls..

paywall

25 min – s: we have trained ourselves to expect things for free.. and yet the only free model is this insidious ad model.. this is this problem we want to solve..

money less ness

27 min – d: internet really was intended to be a commons.. then business came on

common\ing

29 min – s: avg prof writer is living below poverty line.. have to have other jobs.. not an optimal world to live in.. esp when throw in journalism

34 min – s: we know we want smart people to be compensated to really explore/vet topics.. question is how do we get there

we do..? smart people..? i think we want/need.. that to be everyone.. so again.. common\ing sans money

35 min – d: journalists paid enough are paid to not challenge ie: capitalism

36 min – s: people want what they want no matter how valid.. it’s just a fact.. so can’t monetize if people don’t care.. have to figure out how to make them care.. it’s a fool’s errand to figure out how to get them to take their medicine.. (rather than feeding living off tittlating ness)

problem is most of us are not us.. have to wake us up first.. begs a mech that has a detox embed

d: they don’t want to see the thing that makes them think.. but i think deep down people do want that..

of course.. we have to work off that.. rather than how we are acting in our current intoxicated state.. like whales in sea world

40 min – d: i don’t think that’s what people really want so much as that’s what we’re being trained this need to give people the conclusion.. in some ways most dangerous aspect of this culture we’re in

41 min – d: human beings have capital r reasons for doing things.. some essential value.. that’s the real thing i’m in now

almaas holes law.. 2 needs

43 min – d: i decided i’ll be on team human.. i’ll make a bet that there’s something important here.. w/o that as a starting place i find it hard to make any of the arguments we’re making.. t.. seems i have to hold up a value that needs to be recognized

mufleh humanity law

nationality: human

spot on man.. ok..

45 min – d: we augment ourselves at the peril of over simplification

begs we realize that the ai humanity needs..augmenting interconnectedness

46 min – d: the things we can’t record digitally .. don’t make it to the next level of simulation… just gets left behind.. never quite inbetween.. missing something.. whatever it is they don’t know how to measure gets left behind

begs we realize that the ai humanity needs..augmenting interconnectedness

stop measuring

48 min – d: sometimes i wonder if i’m the ape that’s saying i don’t want to learn to speak.. no.. i don’t believe most people developing techs are doing it w my best interest at heart.. they’re led by business plans.. i have a real intuition that what we need as a civilization is not more abstraction..

50 min – d: i feel that w/o a whole lot more media literacy and awareness we can’t go there.. we need to take a moments pause and learn how to be together again in pairs/groups before we venture out

2 convers as infra

s: ie – this convo we are having could be better f to f.. but.. i could also see it worse if we were f to f.. because things i would see wouldn’t translate in the podcast.. so audio makes our recording an advantage.. because i know what i’m getting and what listener will hear..  ie to do video rather than audio.. but there is something more intimate about audio than video..

52 min – d: mcluhan would say radio is hot medium and tv is cool medium.. ie: we’re not creating a .. you had to be there.. experience.. they’re getting what we’re getting

54 min – d: studies saying .. can’t really establish report when using something like skype.. then.. leave convo feeling things that you don’t blame tech for (ie: they agreed when they didn’t) but you blame the other person..  most popular thing going on now is radio

56 min – d: people trading w each other.. to promote transactions in market place..  so made all that illegal and established monopolies (via bureaucracy/laws).. if there was an ownership model.. may not just be a matter of extraction

rather.. a non ownership.. non measuring model..

1:03 – d: thinking that having the right math is going to lead to greater equality.. doesn’t work as a universal framework for human beings.. we’re going to miss those immeasurable places that we touch.. and there’s no word for..t

of math and men

1:06 – d: to clone fb is trivial.. just let someone user owned co-op do it.. then don’t need to grow/scale .. businesses need to keep growing.. there is nothing in nature that grows exponentially.. growth is always by destroying something and it’s always temporary

1:09 – d: i’m surprised that all these educated people can’t realize the os this is based on

rushkoff os law

1:10 – d: the problem is our monetary system.. being interest based.. demands growth

1:11 – d: it’s the public ness and the policy ness..  one tools would be to reverse that tax tool..

1:12 – s: the more you look.. incentives are everything

and if incentives are there.. a sign we’re doing it wrong

1:15 – d: i’m not so worried about right as an individual as right to assembly.. if i can’t get together w others.. infringement on my right as invidual

rights ness.. and need both – 2 needs

1:17 – d: i feel individualism has reached its end point.. became isolated individuals who connect thru products.. but.. one of most enlightened entities of individualism is being able to connect w others..

missing piece #2

1:19 – d: i feel like what happened to net and burning man are same.. but i think that urge is there.. ie: all these co working spaces..  see it in burning man, occupy, rave,..

1:21 – d: on this urge to commune

s: i haven’t thought of a way to use digi tech to amplify live events.. people really do want to get in the same room together.. but there’s something alienating going to live events with thousands of people and there being no context to ever meeting anyone new.. you just show up and then leave..  to have your private response to what you experienced

1:22 – s: i feel like there’s some bright idea that’s *not been had.. with **how to make live events of the future more connecting for people..t

rather *not been heard.. which is why a mech to listen to all the voices is so important

and as for how to make live events more connecting: **2 convers as infra

d: it’s part of what i feel like i’m doing now.. i’m finding more meaning in smaller events.. i feel ok i’m going to engage in a bigger bandwidth w fewer people and see what that’s like

yeah.. smaller.. but everyday.. by choice.. by cure ios city

1:26 – s: feel like it’s person vs free self.. if can get from podcast/ted-talk.. why buy book.. save a lot of time.. don’t have to get book

again.. we have to let go of money.. regardless.. the measuring ness is killing us.. but also.. of the idea that we have to read/write books.. back to doug’s thinking he’s written enough – 20 books.. so now he doesn’t have to go so big anymore.. can be ie: human..

we don’t have to give each other messages.. we just need time and space for gathering that matter to us

1:27 – d: when in front of people for book talk.. i feel ideas were so important to me.. i want to tell them all.. am i on the show to sell a book or ?

s: want to reach all people possible w best ideas.. but have to make a living

no .. we really don’t.. ie: earn a living ness..

1:31 – d: i still read 90% physical books.. i feel more oriented.. remember where things are on the page.. i like the movement.. to be anywhere w it.. i still don’t know what’s better/worse for environ

1:32 – d: do you think what i’m talking about is real/myth.. that there is some emergent meaning of the human project..?..t

human is a key area.. but matters little if miss our true essence..

deep enough to resonate with all of us

s: i think there are levels to it that are independently true.. as some level we are social primates.. that have been adapted to have our intrinsic value system played to our connections to others.. easy to see that comes at a cost

maté trump law

1:34 – s: for most of us having good relationships.. spending time w friends and getting our of virtual spaces.. i think you’re totally right about that.. every trend that’s taken us in other directions is worth worrying about

1:37 – d: traffic apps substitutes for your map/understanding of where you are..  it’s going to send you into neighborhoods people making/paying for app want you to go to.. not just a map of territory but a pay to play map of membership

1:38 – s: i was thinking.. once you get people paying attention to traffic signs.. changes traffic

begs naked streets ness..

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Book of the Day: Team Human https://t.co/p5lKMeKk1w

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/P2P_Foundation/status/1083288329322418176

on hold.. but ugh after pesce episode.. and perhaps up again after harris podcast

team human book

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douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) tweeted at 7:32 AM on Sat, Jan 19, 2019:
One of the main premises of my new book TeamHuman, now excerpted on @Medium, is that nature is a collaborative act – not a free market competition:
https://t.co/B3fA5JR7uo
(https://twitter.com/rushkoff/status/1086632605683011584?s=03)

Prosocial behaviors such as simple imitation — what’s known as mimesis — make people feel more accepted and included, which sustains a group’s cohesion over time. In one experiment, people who were subtly imitated by a group produced less stress hormone than those who were not imitated. Our bodies are adapted to seek and enjoy being mimicked. When human beings are engaged in mimesis, they learn from one another and advance their community’s skill set.

? not sure mimesis is the ideal..

Multiple nervous systems sync and respond together, as if they were one thing. We long for such consonance, as well as the happy hormones and neural regulation that come with it. It’s why our kids want to sleep with us — their nervous systems learn how to sleep and wake by mirroring ours

yeah.. i see that more as being in sync to an undisturbed ecosystem .. more a  resonance (the quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating..the reinforcement or prolongation of sound by reflection from a surface or by the synchronous vibration of a neighboring object.) than a consonance (agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions..a combination of notes which are in harmony with each other due to the relationship between their frequencies).. just thinking more along the lines of a dance of individuals that makes that resonation ringing of being in sync.. than a dance in order to become more a like

It’s why television comedies have laugh tracks — so that we are *coaxed to imitate the laughter of an audience of peers watching along. We naturally **try to resonate with the brain state of the crowd

yeah.. whichever word you use.. i’m thinking it’s less about being *coaxed or even **trying to sync.. it’s just listening for and being in a free enough space to hear what is already there

 Our survivability increased as we learned how to orchestrate simple divisions of labor, and trusted one another enough to carry them out.

hmm.. i don’t know.. thinking of the bit in David’s what makes civilization where they divided up the household work.. and that limited them.. and the work/art

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5 min video on big think from jan 2019

Peter Vander Auwera (@petervan) tweeted at 6:12 AM – 19 Jan 2019 :
Why ‘upgrading’ humanity is a transhumanist myth https://t.co/Vd3SWiCOt4 @rushkoff (http://twitter.com/petervan/status/1086612452471644160?s=17)

i think we still know so little about what it means to be human.. we don’t know what the human brain is.. the source of consciousness.. where we come from.. yet we think we can make a simulation that’s as valid as this

every simulation we make misses something..t

simulation – imitation of a situation or process

see.. i think mimesis here and pheno geno gap (as cancer) growing bigger and badder

life is scary.. and i can understand having a sim city perfection and not have to worry about all that stuff i don’t know.. where everything is discrete.. a yes/no.. this/that.. all the choices have been made.. there’s a certain attractiveness to that.. but that’s dead.. it’s not alive.. there’s no wonder/awe.. nothing strange/liminal/ambiguous about it..t

what we need more: the energy of 7bn alive people

we do those nasty things when we’re less than human.. when we can dehumanize others.. you can’t have slaves if you’re thinking of them as people.. you can only have slaves if you’re thinking of them as something other than people..t

hari rat park law

this desire to transcend the human.. i feel like it’s excusing a whole lot of behaviors/dehumanization.. it makes it easier to send kids into caves to get rare earth models for your phone.. to create toxic waste.. to think of the human timeline as having a beginning/middle/end .. because we’re going to transcend it.. and that’s a sick/western/neo-lib/growth-based/apocalyptic myth that could end our species.. but i would say to the detriment of our universe

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post from dec 2018

Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens) tweeted at 6:04 AM – 6 Feb 2019 :
The Anti-Human Religion of Silicon Valley – Douglas Rushkoff – Medium https://t.co/tCwI4lMuQc(http://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/1093133398984536064?s=17)

The idea that lit up the turned-on technoculture was that technology would be our evolutionary partner and successor — that humans are essentially computational, and computers could do computation better. Any ideas that could be construed to support this contention were embraced. And so Stanford professor René Girard — whose work had much broader concerns — was appreciated almost solely for his assertion that human beings are not original or creative but purely imitative creatures.

The anti-human agenda of technologists might not be so bad — or might never be fully realized — if it didn’t dovetail so neatly with the anti-human agenda of corporate capitalism. Each enables the other, reinforcing an abstract, growth-based scheme of infinite expansion — utterly incompatible with human life or the sustainability of our ecosystem.

We are not being beaten by machines, but by a league of tech billionaires who have been taught to believe that human beings are the problem and technology is the solution. We must become aware of their agenda and fight it if we are going to survive.

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tedsalon sept 2018 – team human (more notes on team human podcast page)

Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens) tweeted at 5:05 AM – 6 Feb 2019 :
How to be “Team Human” in the digital future https://t.co/FvBzxWpsGRhttps://t.co/OiG8dhexSm(http://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/1093118428280508416?s=17)

we have to stop using tech to optimize human beings for the market. and start optimizing tech for the human future..t

and present

the ai humanity needs.. augmenting interconnectedness

build a world that we don’t feel the need to escape from..t

hari present in society law and hari rat park law

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on team human (book) tour

RSA Events (@RSAEvents) tweeted at 5:41 AM on Thu, Feb 14, 2019:
Another day, another event! Excited to have Douglas Rushkoff joining us today to explore how to hold onto what makes us human in a world that represses our autonomy and means of connection. #RSAhuman @rushkoff
Tune in at 1pm!
https://t.co/AGeBH2QXiQ
(https://twitter.com/RSAEvents/status/1096026680588713985?s=03)

15 min – rather than fighting the disease and even giving more weight/authority to that digital .. ‘ooh that digital monster.. let’s get offline’.. no let’s enhance our human resilience.. our own vitality .. our cultural immune response.. t

gershenfeld something else law

if there’s weaponized memes out there.. i don’t want my kid using a weaponized meme filter.. i want my kid being strong enough to not respond to the weaponized meme..t

via ie: cure ios city

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Nikola Danaylov (@singularityblog) tweeted at 7:07 AM – 2 Mar 2019 :
Team Human and the Power of Story – https://t.co/ygMei9kOnH (http://twitter.com/singularityblog/status/1101846435727900674?s=17)

1:013 – i don’t know if i like the idea of having our fate rest on who can tell the most compelling story.. if the person who tells best most compelling story wins the meme then we may be screwed because the fake stories are more compelling than the real ones.. at least to these trained brains

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douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) tweeted at 6:24 AM on Tue, Mar 26, 2019:
Interesting. Maybe the way out of technology’s bad trip, is to push right through it: https://t.co/sS9jtyznFT
(https://twitter.com/rushkoff/status/1110517857354477568?s=03)

carhart-harris entropy law

Human beings have become nothing more than data in flesh suits. That’s the gist ofTeam Human, the 2018 TED Talk from media theorist Douglas Rushkoff.

Smith and Montemayor are most interested in how to undo the damage done by smartphones and their apps.

damage is earlier/deeper.. from ie: supposed to’s\hard-won-order (carhart-harris entropy law).. of school/work

Rushkoff takes Timothy Leary’s analogy that “the PC is the LSD of the 1990s” andapplies it to the internet. It’s our lack of understanding of the psychedelic landscape – and how set and setting influences it – that is causing a mass bad trip, he says. For the cybernauts, it is imperative that we now find ways to use technology to flourish.

tech as it could be.. ie: listening to every voice.. every day via idio-jargon/self-talk as data

cure ios city.. w/2 convers as infra

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George and Douglas/team human on virtual futures- march 2019 – 90 min:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=TrPvhRGHaFg]

Here’s the brilliant @GeorgeMonbiot engaging with me at the British Library last month, courtesy of @VirtualFutures https://t.co/qZ6Wm0u56U

Original Tweet:https://twitter.com/rushkoff/status/1112497934388641792

35 min – g: most advanced at trying this.. participatory city @ParticipatoryC..t

everyone everyday

try 2 convers as infra

40 min – d: when we function as a team we’re real..t

ai humanity needs..augmenting interconnectedness

48 min – g: progress is progress to the cliff edge..t

norton productivity law

50 min – d: we don’t have communities so we’re depending on retirement plans to be the way we survive in our old age.. t

56 min – d: (monks) language itself is an operating system w biases.. it’s a drug..t

beyond words ness – idio-jargoned self-talk as data

58 min – g: restoration narrative: hero confronts and overthrows..

59 min – g: we use narrative to try to cut thru the noise of data.. the short cut we look for is the story.. because they make that sense of the world..

1:01 – g: it’s absolutely fundamental to tell a coherent story which explains the transition from one dispensation we live with in the moment and we hate toward dispensation we want to reach.. and it’s our failure to tell stories .. to tap into that narrative.. that traps us ..t

a nother way book

1:03 – g: preaching to the choir.. as if it’s a bad thing.. the way politics works is thru preaching to the choir.. to move on from dysfunctional state

1:14 – d: sm great connectors until they had to show proof of growth

1:24 – d: (on calling out kids for slacking off for climate change).. i wonder.. maybe they will leverage even that sentiment.. that they’ve slacked off..  .. what if we slacked off.. what if we decided that life was about leisure and not work.. even the idea of getting jobs for people is inane.. why are we getting more jobs for people anyway.. because we need more stuff.. no.. it’s so that we can justify letting people have the stuff.. maybe that might be the next.. what are we training for.. i don’t need your job..t

graeber job less law

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via douglas tweet [https://twitter.com/rushkoff/status/1638874017305178112?s=20]:

If we want to change the climate from industrialism to something more human centered, we don’t do it by manipulating or programming people. That only exacerbates the problem. It’s an artifact of the dominating, colonialist mindset of the social programmer.

links to article: Don’t “Get” People to Do Anything – Social change is not about changing people, but changing the register – mar 2023 by rushkoff

Fortuitously, over the course of my career I’ve identified four “interventions” on which I have relied on (or even based whole books) to open people to new possibilities. I’ll list them here, and follow up with a piece on how each one works over the coming weeks.

Denaturalize Power. Help people recognize the underlying assumptions embedded in our world are inventions and social constructions that we mistake for the conditions of nature.

help people recognize.. is getting them to recognize

Trigger Agency. By denaturalizing power, we reveal that the codes we live by were written by people at particular moments in history, with particular agendas in mind. This then triggers our sense of agency about rewriting such codes ourselves, in ways that benefit more people and reflect our own values.

triggers sense of agency about rewriting codes.. is getting people to rewrite codes rather than whatever they want to do

ReSocialize People. In order to do any of this, we must learn to work together and recognize that — contrary to our current social maps — being human is a team sport.

that’s getting people to work together

Cultivate Awe. Awe means experiencing oneself as part of something greater. In the current register, this is associated with a diminishment of personal freedom, when it is actually the fuller realization of individual and collective identities as mutually reinforcing.

this is getting people to realize/acknowledge/buy-into id ness..

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