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  • Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

  • How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
  • Written by: Douglas Rushkoff
  • Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
  • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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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.

©2016 Douglas Rushkoff (P)2016 Penguin Audio
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What the critics say

"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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how to manual for average business

was more of a manual for economic ideas than a review of google and its practices.

honestly was hoping more rocks would hit the bus on this. performance was a bit on the pleading with the reader side to me.

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