
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
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Douglas Rushkoff
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Douglas Rushkoff
Digital technology was supposed to usher in a new age of distributed prosperity, but so far it has been used to put industrial capitalism on steroids. It's not technology's fault but that of an extractive, growth-driven economic operating system that has reached the limits of its ability to serve anyone, rich or poor, human or corporate. Robots threaten our jobs while algorithms drain our portfolios. But there must be a better response to the lopsided returns of the digital economy than to throw rocks at the shuttle buses carrying Google employees to their jobs, as protesters did in December 2013.
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed media scholar and technology author Douglas Rushkoff calls on us to abandon the monopolist, winner-takes-all values we are unwittingly embedding into the digital economy and to embrace the more distributed possibilities of these platforms. He shows how we can optimize every aspect of the economy - from central currency and debt to corporations and labor - to create sustainable prosperity for business and people alike.
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Critic reviews
"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, president and CEO, The Aspen Institute, and author of The Innovators)
“A brilliant, bomb-hurling critique of the flaws in our digital economy, identifying what has gone wrong and what can be done about it.” (Financial Times)
“A powerful exposé of an underdiscussed downside to the digital revolution.” (Kirkus Reviews)
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Thought provoking...
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if google or facebook shits on the world in the pursuit of their profit the people who buy their stock and the people who run the company are at fault.
They made those choices. not everyone has to be a billionaire or to seek it out stupidly. We can be better and aware of the consequences of our actions.
This is something the author is shoving off into the system of capitalism. sure, capitalism is a problem and at fault for some of it.
But the humans who make the choices at the top are responsible for their terrible choices.
Honestly disappointed by the writer and that I bought the book at all.
The reader is whiny enough to fit the personality of the writer. wah wah wah.
Being a tech villain
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Fascinating dive into economics.
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Don't be put off by the title
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very eye opening.
The voice performance could be better. Some parts were very dry.
really good thoughts on how to change business
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I liked the book but..
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Will influence how I think about products I use, way I spend my day, and businesses I want to start. I wish every politician, economist and businessman reads it.
Eyes opening, magnificent and necessary book
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What made the experience of listening to Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus the most enjoyable?
After listening to Harari (Homo Deus) which partly fed the paranoid part of my personality, Rushkoff provided a plausible future for humanity that was refreshing and gave a little boost to my faith.I needed this optimism.
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Good book that's better read
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Interesting perspective on late-stage capitalism
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