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Team Human
Written by Douglas Rushkoff
Narrated by Douglas Rushkoff
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"A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork."?Walter Isaacson Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff, digital theorist and host of the NPR-One podcast Team Human, reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity. In 100 aphoristic statements, his manifesto exposes how forces for human connection have turned into ones of isolation and repression: money, for example, has transformed from a means of exchange to a means of exploitation, and education has become an extension of occupational training. Digital-age technologies have only amplified these trends, presenting the greatest challenges yet to our collective autonomy: robots taking our jobs, algorithms directing our attention, and social media undermining our democracy. But all is not lost. It's time for Team Human to take a stand, regenerate the social bonds that define us and, together, make a positive impact on this earth.
Author
Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff is the author of 10 bestselling books on media and culture, including Cyberia, Media Virus!, Playing the Future, Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say, and the novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This out of the book thinking is much needed in today's society! Highly recommend
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Read this book to understand the world we live and how to use your own humanity to make it a better place.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Some good themes but it was a bit utopian and somewhat confusing at times.
Recommend a summary version rather than the whole book. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a fantastic and broad scoping work of optimism and nuanced approaches to the various events, changes, ideologies and technologies that are shaping us and the future we pull toward ourselves.
highly recommend. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Although I've been meaning to read Rushkoff for years, this is the first one of his books I've gotten around to. I had recently watched Adam Curtis' "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" (a documentary in a similar vein), and had this book recommended to me by a friend.The book is divided into 100 short sections. Although this format likely simplified the writing process, it tarnished readability by fragmenting the story arc.With such a title, you might wonder—who is the other team? Rushkoff is careful not to choose just one, using the title more to evoke a "we're-all-in-this-together"-spirit. But if I had to choose just one, I would call it the machine. By no means is this a new analogy; the mystic G. I. Gurdjieff was fighting the machine within each of us a century ago. Familiar threads weave together the tapestry of this book; Rushkoff is aiming to create memes (even devoting a section to them), and prefers to rely on familiar concepts that will lend themselves to mainstream adoption, instead of seeking out new metaphors.The book follows a familiar structure—speaking in the beginning to the conception of humanity and our tribalistic nature, moving into the forces shaping our societal moment (economics, artificial intelligence), concluding with a call to arms. During this circuit he touches on some issues close to my heart, such as alternative economics and regenerative agriculture. Many a reader will likely find issues to which they can relate.For those of us shaping the world with our work and participation in larger systems (which is, all of us), this is a great book to get you thinking about ways that we can bring humanity back into our lives, before it is too late.It's worth noting that this book is only the latest installment in Rushkoff's "Team Human" project, having produced a podcast featuring over one-hundred guests over the past few years. It will be interesting to see where he takes the project next, and how many team members he can recruit.