Purple Magazine
— The Revolutions Issue #40 F/W 2023

douglas rushkoff

interview  by DANIEL PINCHBECK  artworks by URS FISCHER    1.  We’re  rediscovering  community,  recreating  society  with  mutual  aid   and  unity. 2.  Taking  digital  technology into  our  collective  hands,  and  growing  local  networks. 3.  We’re  rooting  for  decentralization,  and resisting  technocratic  control. 4.  Fighting for equitable  wealth  distribution  over  digital  dominance.   An American social critic who writes about the impacts of new technologies, Douglas Rushkoff is the author of many books, including Cyberia, Present Shock, and Media Virus!. In Survival of the Richest, his latest work, he explores the dominant mindset in Silicon Valley that has led to cascading social problems such as platforms that extract our data and amplify wealth inequality while causing epidemics of depression and suicide among teenagers. As Rushkoff explores in his book, wealthy tech investors share a deep belief that they and their cohorts are somehow outside the laws of physics, biology, economics, and morality. They think they…

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