Playing For Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

Forward-thinking Douglas Rushkoff author, broadcaster, and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff is one of the We are Europe Faces. As part of TodaysArt festival in 2019, he answered some of our questions on autonomous technologies, runaway markets, weaponized media, AI and the future of humanity. Author: Karel Feenstra It was during the early nineties, at the down of the internet, when Douglas Rushkoff wrote his book ‘Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace’. It took the publisher two years to overcome his hesitation. Electronic mail and internet were obscure topics, unlikely to gain traction. In 1994, the first edition of ‘Cyberia’ was a fact. The rest is history. Recently, Rushkoff delivered a totally different book. Not because his perspective shifted, but because the world has changed. It’s a call upon arms to “remake society together. Not as individual players, but as the team we actually are: Team Human”. Named one of the world’s ten most influential intellectuals by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an award-winning author, broadcaster, and documentarian who studies human autonomy in the digital age. The host of the popular Team Human podcast has written twenty books, including the bestsellers ‘Present Shock’ and ‘Program or Be Programmed’. Rushkoff coined such concepts