Articles
Here is the full list of Douglas Rushkoff’s published articles on this site.
680 items.
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The best-kept but scientifically-validated secret for engendering generosity
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Re-Socializing (the) People
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We’re starting a new MA program in Media Arts and Performance, for community-minded artists, media activists, and performers.
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Triggering Agency
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How Denaturalizing Power Reveals the Constructed Landscape
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Social change is not about changing people, but changing the register
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The lesson we still refuse to learn about the ill-fated AOL-TimeWarner Merger
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What we should have learned from the Covid experience
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How arguing for open source Judaism led me to see healthy institutions as ones that are open for debate
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Social media were the Missionaries; AI are the Conquistadors
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A defense of academic modesty
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How the universe winked at me, and why I think it means we will be okay
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Media Literacy is Everything Literacy
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Be careful how closely you follow the data
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From pitch to publication
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The only answer to more tech is more human investment
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The real and imagined dangers of AI
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What if the platform rose to this occasion?
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A Holiday Story
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2022 Year in Review
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Longtermism, and Metamodernism, and Optimizing Twitter for a Post-Human Future
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Big Tech’s Search for the Ultimate Escape Hatch
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The new Troll in Chief may have undermined both authoritarianism and his hopes for a techno-monarchy
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Raising interest rates doesn’t increase supply, it just makes people poorer.
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The political expediency of holding one’s nose
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The real promise of shared virtual realities
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The platform makes you, your friends, and family vulnerable to robbery
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Revisiting my book Life Inc, Fifteen Years Later
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On the publication of Cybersalon’s new collection of ideas about the future
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We living things are here on the Ground
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Our desperate attempts at profiteering and monopolization render us all more vulnerable to death and disaster
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Why the tech billionaires want to rise above the rest of us, and why it’s so stupid you have to laugh
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Part IV: How we convince the wealthy that shared prosperity is even possible
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Part III: How to get from digital industrialism to digital distributism
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Part II: From Artisans to Employees
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Part I: A new economic story; a new theory of change
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Ecstasy Club and the Unfulfillable Promise
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How to transcend both denial and distraction when the world seems to be coming apart
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The catastrophes on your TV screen are the result, not the cause
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If baseball is going to abandon the poor, then I’m going to abandon baseball.
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Let’s build an Overground Railroad instead
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How Speculators Prevent Crypto from Working as a Safe Haven
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Higher prices are not necessarily a bad thing.
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Too much artifice is a symptom of something wrong
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When middle school bullies rule the world
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The coming crypto crash may take down more than the tokens, but this is actually good for the blockchain
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My Medium piece Survival of the Richest has grown into a whole book
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No hot takes. Just take action.
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Psychedelics, like everything else, are political
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Ten years ago, I realized media literacy meant something different
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How do we catalyze awe and humility without just triggering more fear and confusion?
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The real incentive for blockchains
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How haggling holds us all together
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I’ll stake my future on the solidarity of the people over the cynicism of the elite.
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And that’s more than okay
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We are not there, we are not informed, so we should shut up and use less oil
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Why it’s better for humans to believe in something
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I’m trying a new approach to the pain and suffering around me. It may be working.
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The problem with my proposal for a new centrist Democratic Party
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Only the Democratic party — corrupted though it may be — is willing to submit to the rule of law. Should it move to the center in order to represent everyone interested in representative democracy?
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How Team Human can retrieve the true promise of the digital renaissance.
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How the civic abuses of national politics trickle down to Main Street
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Everything doesn’t have to end.
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Real Americans Don’t Give a Shit About the Culture Wars
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Social media is work. So how about taking a day off?
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What we can all learn from the accountant who became my second father
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The Balkanization of media will continue, until it doesn’t
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Invitation to a new course I’m teaching with Jeff Jarvis
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Why I turned down an appearance on Steve Bannon’s podcast
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Why sci-fi shows should start naming spaceships after social justice heroes.
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On Facebook’s need for human intervention
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Why create solutions ‘at scale’ if operating at scale is itself the main problem?
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Collaboration is the human employee’s secret weapon
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How automation will force us to retrieve human competence
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Yes, It’s Really Okay to Reduce Our Exposure to the Global Info Onslaught
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Extreme weather may help remind humans of their place in the bigger scheme of things
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Retrieving the great, big, migratory meta-community of digital nomads
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How to make the next generation of bankers better than today’s
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The technology is fine, but its speculative bias reveals something sad about our relationship with money
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Epidemiologists are stuck in a real-time feedback loop with public health
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A modest proposal for connecting the dots
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As even our smartest friends fall to conspiracy fever, we have to accept it’s not about logic or politics, but addiction
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The problem with policing a language already built on objectification
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On the re-publication of Robert Anton Wilson’s ‘The New Inquisition’
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We are not the users of their network. We *are* the network.
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Granting slack is a better choice than venting rage
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Zooming is to real conversation as smoking is to breathing
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We must help one another strive for integrity over impact
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How the counterculture surrendered communal well-being to individual enlightenment
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r/WallStreetBets delivered cybernetic karma to those who deserve it
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If America is going to recover from its Trump addiction, it’s going to need to embrace monotony
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A grim journey through partisan network coverage
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Even if the candidates weren’t shouting over each other, did we really gain anything?
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A counterintuitively optimistic take on the first presidential debate
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Trump has brought pranksterism to the Republican Party. That used to be liberals’ specialty.
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Technology gave us the dream of a cocooned future. Now we’re living it.
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Black communities have for centuries harbored a spirit of support and mutual aid. It’s time the rest of the country followed their lead.
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The militarization of our police goes hand in hand with the collapse of civil society
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The sooner we open up the economy, the faster we simply recreate what got us into this mess. It’s time for a radical shift.
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Covid-19 may be our final, last-gasp revolt
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To Trump, our illnesses and deaths are a necessary cost of doing business
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Online resources provide a much better tool for understanding COVID-19 than broadcast news
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What learning to speak remotely teaches us about how to compensate for the coming era of social distancing
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The intraparty social media spats of today will inspire Putin and Co.’s memes of tomorrow
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Algorithms have led to filter bubbles and fueled polarization. It’s time to bring back the tech for a shared reality.
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Rules are for the weak and hold back strong men like himself
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A 1990s cyber enthusiast considers whether he’s to blame for our digital woes
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The rest of the world is using technology to subvert digital capitalism. We can, too.
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Democracy suffers as a dying medium makes one last bid for relevance
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How tech companies turned an instrument of human potential into one of exploitation
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What the great vaccination debate reveals about our social immune system
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Trump obsesses over cable news not as viewer but as co-producer — watching, learning, and getting better every day
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The hippies’ effort to destabilize the American dream may have worked too well
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We need to welcome the newly woke, however imperfect
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How digital technology alienates you from your soul
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How the left succumbed to the cult of Trump
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Two more years at Harvard would have taught him some valuable lessons — and changed the course of Facebook
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There’s something happening here
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We should convince the rich that climate remediation is a sure thing and that they better get in on the ground floor
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I was outraged by a tweet. I didn’t share it.
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Cooperation is imprinted in our genes just as unmistakably as competition
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What the algorithms can’t see may be the most human thing about us
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How an esoteric Russian religion still fuels the digital apocalypse
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Virulent nationalism proves the U.S. was founded on a myth
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Nationalism may have started as a side effect of fake news, but it’s quickly becoming the new American way
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When supposed progressives go wobbly on social justice, we need to engage them, not ignore them
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How a collective in New Zealand is pointing the way to social change from the bottom up
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Instead of seeking to represent us, the GOP has weaponized manipulation. Sadly, some Democrats are following suit
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How we sold the world a picture of America more enlightened than Americans could tolerate
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But conservatives have reality TV — and reality itself — on lock
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The plan is no gift to the masses, but a tool for our further enslavement
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What happens when the counterculture becomes mainstream? Hint: the mainstream becomes the counterculture.
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Can billionaires gamify social good?
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How we can hallucinate our way back to sanity
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A charismatic leader, mind control, and other telltale signs
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An open letter to the tech giant’s awakened workers
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Interactivity, the Mets, and the death of feedback
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A conversation with Bo Burnham, America’s new favorite comedian
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The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind
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When Everything Becomes a Shopping Mall
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Distributed Prosperity Means Breaking the Addiction to Growth, and Circulating Value Throughout Your Marketplace
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Leary's Stash Box
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Team Human: Our Last Best Hope for Peeps
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TV may have been about global unity, but the Internet inspires the opposite.
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Transcript from an interview on BigThink about Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus (Portfilio, 2016)
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An excerpt from Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, by Douglas Rushkoff (Portfolio 2016). Published in Harvard Business Review March 02, 2016.
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I’ve given up on fixing the economy. The economy is not broken. It’s simply unjust. There’s a difference.
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Experts on business, labor, and corporate governance offer their reasons for optimism and pessimism going into 2016.
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How the Internet enables outlandish claims
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How Online Activity Informs Offline Activism
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Seven Questions, Seven Answers
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Create Real Value Now, or Perish
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Why Letting Banks Fail Is Actually Good For Real People
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Rushkoff on the economy
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A Different Perspective on Peoplehood
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56th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture
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Doug Rushkoff's Testament
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How being great at what you do is great for business
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Innovation from the Inside Out
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MST3K, LOST IN SPACE, and the Reality of Science Fiction
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Springfield U.S.A.
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by Kenneth Applebaum with an intro by Jeanette Friedman
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A Conversation with Douglas Rushkoff
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The self-imposed death of institutional Judaism.
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How hackers maintain the net's natural balance.
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Do We Want a Revolution or a Renaissance?
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Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with R.U. Sirius
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The internet is not killing off conversation but actively encouraging it
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Douglas Rushkoff on the $300bn deal that's a merger in name only
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How Rave Became Business
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A Talk with Douglas Rushkoff
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Cultural Imperialism and the Internet
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How the TV Remote Killed Traditional Structure
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The Palm Pilot Cut
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How the TV Remote Killed Traditional Structure
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Surviving the end of the world as we know it