‘We’ll Always Be Strangers, Ourselves’ With Sonia Shah

On challenging conventional assumptions about migration and reveals how human movement is central to being human

Douglas Rushkoff
Team Human

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Photo credit: Johnny Martyr

Playing for Team Human today, investigative journalist and author of “The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move,” Sonia Shah.

Shah challenges conventional assumptions about migration and reveals how human movement is central to being human. Further, she looks ahead to how climate change will force the next great human migration, and how we can all view each other not as strangers, but as fellow humans.

In his monologue, Rushkoff connects the plight of billionaire technologists imagining apocalyptic scenarios and building bunkers with the migration patterns of the Israelites in Torah. “We’ll always be welcoming strangers because we’ll always be strangers, ourselves.”

This episode of Team Human was recorded live at IMPAKT Festival 2020 from Utrecht.

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Douglas Rushkoff
Team Human

Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm