Douglas Rushkoff tells Brian Rose how digital platforms change behaviour, why growth-driven capitalism is a problem, what present shock is and why he is on Team Human.
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Chapters
- 4:17 Introducing Douglas Rushkoff
- 6:05 London then and now
- 13:48 Captology and engineered anxiety
- 21:40 What the early internet was meant to be
- 24:34 Wired, the long boom and the dot-com crash
- 30:10 The growth imperative and the peer-to-peer economy
- 35:07 Uber, externalities and who gets left out
- 50:42 Google, Alphabet and Ray Kurzweil
- 54:53 How does this end
- 1:00:21 Present shock and digiphrenia
- 1:04:07 Getting your present back
- 1:10:29 The London Real low media diet
- 1:17:40 Plant intelligence, Gaia and psychedelics
- 1:37:03 Terrorism as a hack of the attention economy
- 1:41:51 Globalism, Brexit and Trump
- 1:51:02 Storytelling, capitalism and Breaking Bad
- 1:58:10 Advice for a new media company
- 2:14:05 Losing his best friend
- 2:25:01 Advice to his 20-year-old self
