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Team Human

Team Human

By: Douglas Rushkoff
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Team Human is a weekly podcast and set of resources enabling human intervention in the economic, technological, and social programs that determine how we live, work, and interact. This is media as cultural resistance and a path to social change.

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Douglas Rushkoff 2021
Politics & Government Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Eliott Edge: Magic and Mocktails
    Jul 9 2025

    Eliott Edge revisits his first book, Three Essays in Virtual Reality, while giving us a sneak preview of his thinking for his upcoming opus on Simulation theory. Edge is a critically-acclaimed author, artist, and international speaker. Edge has published and presented through The Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, The University of Melbourne, Stevens Institute of Technology, Anthology Film Archives, The C.G. Jung Center, The Fenris Wolf, The Museum of Computer Arts, VRTO, Block Seoul, and Disinformation.



    Names cited:

    Ayn Rand, Bob Monroe, Nick Bostrom, Carlos Castaneda, Charles Eisenstein, Chris Anderson, Daniel Dennett, David Graeber, Elon Musk, Frank Zappa, Jeffrey Epstein, John Ellis, Kurt Gödel, Lawrence Krauss, Nick Land, Peter Thiel, Rupert Sheldrake, Susan Blackmore, Thomas Campbell, Walter Kirn, Zoltan Istvan



    Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.

    Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Don’t Shoot the Messenger: AI is not the problem
    Jul 2 2025

    Each supposed AI “problem” stems from a lack of imaginative capacity from us. We are refusing the opportunity to rethink more fundamental assumptions about the systems under threat.

    Instead of acting like tech bros and reinforcing obsolete institutions in order to further entrench their extractive and inhumane monopolies, we can go deeper to discover what cracks are being revealed in this new media environment. Don’t shoot the messenger.


    Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.

    Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/

    Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/

    Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/


    Use the code “rush10” to receive 10% off of Cobi Dryer sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/

    Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman


    Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff:

    Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoff

    Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com

    Get bonus content on Patreon: patreon.com/teamhuman

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.


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    24 mins
  • De Kai: Humans Get ONE Shot to Parent AI
    Jun 25 2025

    De Kai, the man who built the world’s first global translators and AI systems, says we better learn to parent our AI offspring before it’s too late. The author of Raising AI argues how we behave in front of AI’s matters more than whatever we tell them.


    Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.

    Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/

    Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/

    Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/


    Use the code “rush10” to receive 10% off of Cobi Dryer sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/

    Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman


    Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff:

    Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoff

    Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com

    Get bonus content on Patreon: patreon.com/teamhuman

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
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