Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Douglas Rushkoff • Rizzoli • ISBN-13 978‑1617230172
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
ISBN-10: 1617230170 · ISBN-13: 978‑1617230172 · 2016
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Douglas Rushkoff presents a critical examination of the digital economy, arguing that the current model of extractive growth is fundamentally incompatible with human prosperity. Through a lens of media theory and economic history, he explores how platform monopolies and algorithmic capitalism have distorted the original promise of the internet.
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