2/2 “Consumers open the box (perhaps making a video of the "unboxing" ritual) to reveal a piece of electronics that may as well have been teleported from a factory in another dimension. There are no human fingerprints to remind us of the factory conditions in China where it was actually made. In order to remove evidence of suffering laborers, tech companies poison them further.” #Rushkoff #SurvivalOfTheRichest

1/2 “Too many of today's technological processes stem from this same urge to distance consumers from the reality of labor. In the final stage of cell phone assembly, for example, workers wipe down each unit with a toxic solvent that removes their own fingerprints from the devices. The chemical leads to miscarriages, cancers, and shortened lifespan. The benefit, of course, is that it removes all traces of human involvement.” #Rushkoff #SurvivalOfTheRichest

1/2 “Too many of today's technological processes stem from this same urge to distance consumers from the reality of labor. In the final stage of cell phone assembly, for example, workers wipe down each unit with a toxic solvent that removes their own fingerprints from the devices. The chemical leads to miscarriages, cancers, and shortened lifespan. The benefit, of course, is that it removes all traces of human involvement.” #Rushkoff “SurvivalOfTheRichest

2/2 “Consumers open the box (perhaps making a video of the "unboxing" ritual) to reveal a piece of electronics that may as well have been teleported from a factory in another dimension. There are no human fingerprints to remind us of the factory conditions in China where it was actually made. In order to remove evidence of suffering laborers, tech companies poison them further.” #Rushkoff #SurvivalOfTheRichest

2/2 “Consumers open the box (perhaps making a video of the "unboxing" ritual) to reveal a piece of electronics that may as well have been teleported from a factory in another dimension. There are no human fingerprints to remind us of the factory conditions in China where it was actually made.
In order to remove evidence of suffering laborers, tech companies poison them further.” #Rushkoff #SurvivalOfTheRichest

1/2 “Too many of today's technological processes stem from this same urge to distance consumers from the reality of labor. In the final stage of cell phone assembly, for example, workers wipe down each unit with a toxic solvent that removes their own fingerprints from the devices. The chemical leads to miscarriages, cancers, and shortened lifespan. The benefit, of course, is that it removes all traces of human involvement“ #Rushkoff #SurvivalOfTheRichest

1/2 “Too many of today's technological processes stem from this same urge to distance consumers from the reality of labor. In the final stage of cell phone assembly, for example, workers wipe down each unit with a toxic solvent that removes their own fingerprints from the devices. The chemical leads to miscarriages, cancers, and shortened lifespan. The benefit, of course, is that it removes all traces of human involvement.“ #Rushkoff #SurvivalOfTheRichest

Got this book from my local library earlier today #Rushkoff #TechBillionaires #ClimateChange

Got this book from my local library earlier today #Rushkoff #TechBillionaires #ClimateChange

Auf meiner Leseliste:
Douglas Rushkoff - Survival Of The Richest. Escape Fantasies Of The Tech Billionaires.
Bisher leider noch nicht auf deutsch übersetzt, soweit ich weiß.
#rushkoff #books

I've finally created my first every set of original music and I'm super stoked to able to share it with you all here on the Fediverse. It's called "Return to Cyberia".

https://soundcloud.com/starlifterfm/dr-hitchcock-return-to-cyberia-original-radio-mix

Remember surfing the World Wide Web, downloading your first MP3, illegal warehouse raves, reaching for the lasers, Jolt Cola, and who could forget the brown acid... DON'T TOUCH THE BROWN ACID.

"Return To Cyberia" is a musical homage to Douglas #Rushkoff's 1994 book "Cyberia, Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace". In it he pictured a psychedelically connected Earth via Rave culture, Gaia and The Internet. Today things look much different but we still might be able to...
Return to Cyberia.

#DrHitchcock #Rushkoff #Techno #Electro #TB303 #Acid

@watch_union
Deine Hypothese erinnert mich an die Geschichte, die ein gewisser Douglas #Rushkoff vor einer Weile erzählt hat:
https://invidio.us/n6lQBkz8FGE

@dajbelshaw
Stripped down to the lowest common denomination? I suppose it assists the #algorithm
Personally, I find this increasing need & reliance on #ai to be worrying in the extreme.
I am very much with #rushkoff on this one, be on #teamhuman. #educationisahumanright

Team Human: Mary L. Gray "Invisible by Design" + Betaworks Studios Keynote https://shows.pippa.io/teamhuman/ep135-mary-gray

The first half is the audio of his keynote talk.

#rushkoff

Wrote a book summary of Douglas Rushkoff's latest book: Team Human.

https://njoseph.me/mediawiki/Books/Team_Human

#Books #Rushkoff #TeamHuman

@judeswae Looks like I found my next favorite author after Douglas #Rushkoff.

What if the real reason for climate change is the outdated 13th century concept of debt-based currency that we are still following?

debt-based currency -> growth-based economy -> short-term decision-making -> climate change

http://rushkoff.com/books/throwing-rocks-at-the-google-bus/

#Rushkoff #ClimateChange #Economy #Growth #Sustainability

How to run "disruptive" "unicorn" #startups in the digital age

- create free and addictive stuff
- acquire millions of real or fake users
- burn investor money
- make no profits
- forget about why you wanted to start a company and "pivot"
- make sure you're a monopoly in your sector

and most importantly

- ensure your venture capitalists have a 100x or 1000x RoI at any cost to people, society or environment

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Inspired from "Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus" by Douglas #Rushkoff

#books #VC

Dude writes a book called "Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus" and delivers a talk about it at ...wait for it... Google. 🙈

#rushkoff #books #Google

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0EnmH95016w

Life Inc. the movie

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sOBWhVe68os

#rushkoff #books