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You Are Not Alone. You Are on Team Human.

You Are Not Alone. You Are on Team Human.

In this closing excerpt from Team Human, Rushkoff calls on us to “Find the Others”
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Douglas Rushkoff
How Video Games Reveal our Programmed World

How Video Games Reveal our Programmed World

Taking back reality with the original digits: the fingers on our own two hands
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Douglas Rushkoff
How to Reclaim the Real World

How to Reclaim the Real World

Towns and cities are human places; nations are just ideas
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Douglas Rushkoff
Tolerating the Intolerant

Tolerating the Intolerant

Free-market fanatics, racist bullies, and techno-elites all see nature as a cruel competition
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Douglas Rushkoff
Like it or Not, You Are a Diplomat for Something

Like it or Not, You Are a Diplomat for Something

Learn how to listen, and how to represent
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Douglas Rushkoff
Community Used to Be the Default; Now We Have to Seek it Out

Community Used to Be the Default; Now We Have to Seek it Out

Solidarity begins with place
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Douglas Rushkoff
We Went From Tribal to Individual. Something Else Must Come Next.

We Went From Tribal to Individual. Something Else Must Come Next.

We don’t yet have a great way to talk about a new spirit of collectivism
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Douglas Rushkoff
The ‘Self-Made Man’ Is a Myth

The ‘Self-Made Man’ Is a Myth

The myth of individuality made capitalism possible and has sustained it to this day
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True Innovators Don’t Just Invent, They Retrieve

True Innovators Don’t Just Invent, They Retrieve

Success in the future depends on bringing forward the values of previous ages
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Douglas Rushkoff
We Need a Digital Renaissance, not a Digital Revolution

We Need a Digital Renaissance, not a Digital Revolution

How we can trade a mere digital revolution for a truly dimensional shift
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Douglas Rushkoff
Why People Distrust ‘the Science’

Why People Distrust ‘the Science’

By pitting science against nature and human experience, we rob it of its moral power
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Douglas Rushkoff
Empirical Science Began as a Domination Fantasy

Empirical Science Began as a Domination Fantasy

Meaningful discoveries happen from the bottom up
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Douglas Rushkoff
The Lost Art of Pattern Recognition

The Lost Art of Pattern Recognition

Like the builders of doomed Fukushima, we envision the future without respecting the past
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Douglas Rushkoff
How We Can Work With Both Nature and Technology

How We Can Work With Both Nature and Technology

Permaculture embraces the complexity of both
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Douglas Rushkoff
Why Agriculture Fails at Food

Why Agriculture Fails at Food

From Pharaoh to Big Agra, it’s always been about monopolizing the harvest
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Douglas Rushkoff
How to Avoid Pitting Nature Against Progress

How to Avoid Pitting Nature Against Progress

We cannot dominate nature for much longer, but neither can we retreat from civilization
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Douglas Rushkoff
We Need to Find Capital-R Reasons for What We Do

We Need to Find Capital-R Reasons for What We Do

The logic of productivity or capitalism is not enough
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Douglas Rushkoff
I Will Not Pass the Evolutionary Torch To My Robot Successor

I Will Not Pass the Evolutionary Torch To My Robot Successor

Human beings are not the problem; we are the solution
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Douglas Rushkoff
The True Origins of Transhumanism

The True Origins of Transhumanism

How Russians, robots, and dolphins spawned a movement at Esalen
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Douglas Rushkoff
Self-Actualization and the Myth of Personal Growth

Self-Actualization and the Myth of Personal Growth

How the counterculture surrendered communal well-being to individual enlightenment
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Douglas Rushkoff
How the Promise of a Utopian Future Was Used to Justify Mass Exploitation

How the Promise of a Utopian Future Was Used to Justify Mass Exploitation

On encountering the destructiveness of European colonialists, Native Americans concluded that the invaders must have a disease
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Douglas Rushkoff
Why We Exchanged Circular Sustainability for a World of Straight Lines

Why We Exchanged Circular Sustainability for a World of Straight Lines

We drive forward with our eyes on the horizon, ignoring the devastation we create in our wake
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Douglas Rushkoff
How Our Healthy Longing for Awe Gets Exploited by the Truly Awful

How Our Healthy Longing for Awe Gets Exploited by the Truly Awful

There’s a difference between awe and excitement. These days, we mostly get the latter.
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Douglas Rushkoff
How Shame Became the Weapon of the Shameless

How Shame Became the Weapon of the Shameless

Social stigmas are used to keep us from finding our collective power
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Douglas Rushkoff
In a World Run by Algorithms, Weirdness Is Our Best Weapon

In a World Run by Algorithms, Weirdness Is Our Best Weapon

How anomalous behavior defeats the systems of social control
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Douglas Rushkoff
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