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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
Douglas Rushkoff
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Description for Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
Paperback. Shows the promise and perils of the digital economy - and how we can use it to create prosperity for all. This book identifies the crucial economic turning point and calls on everyone to remake the economic operating system from the inside out - to redistribute wealth and prosper along the way. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: KC; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies such as Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? How could things be different? In San Francisco in 2013 activists protesting against the gentrification of their city smashed the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work. But these protests weren't just a question of the activists versus the Googlers, or even the 99 per cent versus the 1 per cent. Rather they were symptomatic of the true conflict of our age, between humanity as a whole and a digital economy in which boundless growth is valued above ... Read more
Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies such as Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? How could things be different? In San Francisco in 2013 activists protesting against the gentrification of their city smashed the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work. But these protests weren't just a question of the activists versus the Googlers, or even the 99 per cent versus the 1 per cent. Rather they were symptomatic of the true conflict of our age, between humanity as a whole and a digital economy in which boundless growth is valued above ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241004418
SKU
V9780241004418
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99-2
About Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff is the author of many bestselling books on media, technology and culture, including Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed and Media Virus. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels Testament and A.D.D., and made the television documentaries Generation Like, Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He lives ... Read more
Reviews for Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
If you don't know Rushkoff, you're not serious about figuring out what's going to happen next
Seth Godin
Douglas Rushkoff is one of today's most incisive media theorists and a provocative critic of our digital economy. He's also fun to read
Walter Isaacson
Seth Godin
Douglas Rushkoff is one of today's most incisive media theorists and a provocative critic of our digital economy. He's also fun to read
Walter Isaacson