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Throwing rocks at the Google bus : how growth became the enemy of prosperity, Douglas Rushkoff

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"Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else? When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn't between the unemployed and the digital elite, or even the 99 percent and the 1 percent. Rather, a tornado of technological improvements has spun our economic program out of control, and humanity as a whole--the protesters and the Google employees as well as the shareholders and the executives--are all trapped by the consequences. It's time to optimize our economy for the human beings it's supposed to be serving. In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed media scholar and author Douglas Rushkoff tells us how to combine the best of human nature with the best of modern technology. Tying together disparate threads--big data, the rise of robots and AI, the increasing participation of algorithms in stock market trading, the gig economy, the collapse of the Eurozone--Rushkoff provides a critical vocabulary for our economic moment and a nuanced portrait of humans and commerce at a critical crossroads."--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
viii, 278 pages
Contents
  • Sharing economics: getting humans back "on the books"
  • The unemployment solution
  • The growth trap :
  • Corporations are programs
  • The platform monopoly
  • Recoding the corporation
  • The steady-state enterprise
  • The speed of money :
  • Coin of the realm
  • Reprogramming money: bank vaults to blockchains
  • Introduction :
  • Money is a verb
  • Investing without exiting :
  • Finance is nothing personal
  • Do algorithms dream of digital derivatives?
  • Investment gamified: the startup
  • Ventureless capital: the patience of crowds
  • Fully invested: factors beyond capital
  • Distributed :
  • Digital distributism
  • Renaissance now?
  • What's wrong with this picture?
  • Removing humans from the equation :
  • Digital industrialism
  • Mass mass mass
  • The digital marketplace: winner takes all
  • The economy of likes
  • The big data play
Isbn
9781617230172
Instance
Label
Throwing rocks at the Google bus : how growth became the enemy of prosperity
Title
Throwing rocks at the Google bus
Title remainder
how growth became the enemy of prosperity
Statement of responsibility
Douglas Rushkoff
Title variation
How growth became the enemy of prosperity
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else? When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn't between the unemployed and the digital elite, or even the 99 percent and the 1 percent. Rather, a tornado of technological improvements has spun our economic program out of control, and humanity as a whole--the protesters and the Google employees as well as the shareholders and the executives--are all trapped by the consequences. It's time to optimize our economy for the human beings it's supposed to be serving. In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed media scholar and author Douglas Rushkoff tells us how to combine the best of human nature with the best of modern technology. Tying together disparate threads--big data, the rise of robots and AI, the increasing participation of algorithms in stock market trading, the gig economy, the collapse of the Eurozone--Rushkoff provides a critical vocabulary for our economic moment and a nuanced portrait of humans and commerce at a critical crossroads."--
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Rushkoff, Douglas
Dewey number
303.48/33
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HC79.I55
LC item number
R87 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Information technology
  • Electronic commerce
Label
Throwing rocks at the Google bus : how growth became the enemy of prosperity, Douglas Rushkoff
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-266) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Sharing economics: getting humans back "on the books"
  • The unemployment solution
  • The growth trap :
  • Corporations are programs
  • The platform monopoly
  • Recoding the corporation
  • The steady-state enterprise
  • The speed of money :
  • Coin of the realm
  • Reprogramming money: bank vaults to blockchains
  • Introduction :
  • Money is a verb
  • Investing without exiting :
  • Finance is nothing personal
  • Do algorithms dream of digital derivatives?
  • Investment gamified: the startup
  • Ventureless capital: the patience of crowds
  • Fully invested: factors beyond capital
  • Distributed :
  • Digital distributism
  • Renaissance now?
  • What's wrong with this picture?
  • Removing humans from the equation :
  • Digital industrialism
  • Mass mass mass
  • The digital marketplace: winner takes all
  • The economy of likes
  • The big data play
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
viii, 278 pages
Isbn
9781617230172
Isbn Type
(hardcover)
Lccn
2016303658
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)936359157
  • 703640
  • (OCoLC)ocn936359157
  • 703640
Label
Throwing rocks at the Google bus : how growth became the enemy of prosperity, Douglas Rushkoff
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-266) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Sharing economics: getting humans back "on the books"
  • The unemployment solution
  • The growth trap :
  • Corporations are programs
  • The platform monopoly
  • Recoding the corporation
  • The steady-state enterprise
  • The speed of money :
  • Coin of the realm
  • Reprogramming money: bank vaults to blockchains
  • Introduction :
  • Money is a verb
  • Investing without exiting :
  • Finance is nothing personal
  • Do algorithms dream of digital derivatives?
  • Investment gamified: the startup
  • Ventureless capital: the patience of crowds
  • Fully invested: factors beyond capital
  • Distributed :
  • Digital distributism
  • Renaissance now?
  • What's wrong with this picture?
  • Removing humans from the equation :
  • Digital industrialism
  • Mass mass mass
  • The digital marketplace: winner takes all
  • The economy of likes
  • The big data play
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
viii, 278 pages
Isbn
9781617230172
Isbn Type
(hardcover)
Lccn
2016303658
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)936359157
  • 703640
  • (OCoLC)ocn936359157
  • 703640

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