Clean Water/Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus – Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Douglas Rushkoff is a prolific writer, documentarian, and lecturer whose work focuses on human autonomy in a digital age. He is the author of fifteen bestselling books on media, technology, and society, including Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock and Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say. He has made such award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries as “Generation Like,” “Merchants of Cool,” and “The Persuaders,” and is the author of the graphic novels Testament and Aleister & Adolf . He also hosts his own podcast called “Team Human”. And his latest book is entitled Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity.
“We’re taking the smartest kids out of Stanford and teaching them what’s called ‘captology’ in the labs of BJ Fogg how to elicit these Pavlovian responses to every bell and swipe and text and button on our smartphones, so that every swipe we make on our smartphone, it gets smarter about us as we get dumber about it.” Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
