Team Human

De: Douglas Rushkoff

Narrado por: Douglas Rushkoff

"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.

©2019 Douglas Rushkoff (P)2018 Recorded Books

Should be read by all school added children

Maybe then - they would go into the world thinking and framing humanity as an asset & community as something to strive for. Some of the book is idealistic in tone, but it feels on purpose.. like for a little extra nudge. Thanks Douglas, I value your contribution to team human!
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An interesting take on taking on life

A nice take on building better community.
Very thought provoking.
Absolutely recommend to hear the authors take on building a better world.

thank you for this thoughtful read.

the optimism helps to visualize a brighter future while lending intelligently, critical thinking ,and historical analysis of the technological,social and economic conditions that have created the challenges humanity faces today

Excellent book!

This was a fascinating book by Rushkoff filled with valuable insights about our current economic and societal issues. I love his narration and highly recommend listening!

Amazing food for thought from every food group

Amazing food for thought from every food group. It draws nicely from many wide ranging topics and concepts. While being so great at pointing out the essential flaws that recur so timelessly it somehow still glosses over how we're supposed to start working better to get along on team human but great insights and questioning.

Splendid!

if this book doesn't restore your faith in humanity, nothing will. The performance is great too, you can hear his contained excitement. Truly amazing.

Everyone should read this

Best nonfiction book of year. Rushkoff is a prophet. A brilliant writer with an urgent message

Required Reading !

This book is fantastic and was great hearing Rushkoff reading it himself. I plan on buying a physical copy.

Great primer for a Team Human introduction

If you haven't been listening to podcast Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff--the great techno guru of the 90s who has now become more of a skeptic and the social consciousness of the silicon era--do so now. Full of brilliant ideas and dialogues about our current confusing era. Then, after listening to most of the archive, get the book Team Human.

To be honest, it's rather light for Rushkoff. To delve deeper, try Life Inc. or Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus. Team Human could be accused of oversimplifying a host of issues, but the book does provide a valuable service by summing up the ethos that humanity needs to start living by if we are going to survive the digital landscape that we are in. These things do need to sorted in an orderly manner, like a manifesto or at least a starter, so that well-meaning people will have a foundation to fall back on.

Much of the book is fascinating, on the connection between computerized media and nationalism as opposed to the unifying nature of other mediums. On the absurd abstraction of the economy, and how we must care more about the foreground and not be lost in the background. Why the Renaissance, which takes in positive old ideas, is a better metaphor for the state of the world than 'revolution', which always ends up with the same power structures in the end. There is even an analysis about how story structure in cinema has warped people's expectations of reality, and even gets into the cyclical nature of time in cultures both pre- and post-agriculturalism. And my personal favorite, the dangerous concept of mechanomorphism in which humans start imitating the machines.

Team Human is an important book for anyone who cares about just that, humans. Armed with these ideas, let's choose a team that has our interests in mind before it's too late...

Amazing

Spot on!!! The most accurate description of our present predicament that I have found. Read it. Pass it on. Find the others....