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Douglas rushkoff quotes author of program or be programmed. Douglas rushkoff has written a dozen bestselling books on media and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion winner of the. Douglas mark rushkoff born february 18, 1961 is an american media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian. Choose the former, and you gain access to the control panel of civilization. Rushkoff hosts the team human podcast, made four pbs frontline documentaries including generation like and the merchants of cool, and wrote many bestselling books including team human, present shock, program or be programmed. Rushkoff proposes 10 commands that are each based on one of the biases of digital media.
An excerpt from douglas rushkoffs latest book, program or be programmed. It has been created for a wide variety of readersfrom high school to adultsand purposesfrom book clubs to study groups. Resistance is futile, but so is the abandonment of personal experience scaled to the individual human organism. But the book is not about it and is talking about something totaly wrong. Program or be programmed ten commands for the digital age. Ten commands for a digital age companies with new technologies are free to disrupt almost any industry they choosejournalism, television, music, manufacturingso long as they dont disrupt the financial operating system churning beneath it all.
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