Douglas Rushkoff
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Portfolio, 2016
Was ist drin?
An addiction to growth undermines the US economy.
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Douglas Rushkoff, author of the best-selling Present Shock, passionately outlines how the digital marketplace has gone wrong. He sees an economy clouded by soaring rents in Silicon Valley and an ever-greater concentration of wealth on Wall Street. He’s troubled that companies such as Facebook and Google must pursue a strategy of growth at all costs, and he cites the consequences in human and business terms while offering possible solutions. Rushkoff’s progressive prescriptions include, among other ideas, alternative currencies and a guaranteed minimum income. While always politically neutral, getAbstract recommends Rushkoff’s intriguing arguments to investors and policy makers seeking insight into the digital economy.
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About the Author
Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock and other books, makes documentary films, and teaches media theory and digital economics at Queens College, City University of New York.
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