Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Published by Penguin Random House Audio
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Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone?
What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else?
When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn't between the unemployed and the digital elite, or even the 99 percent and the 1 percent. Rather, a tornado of technological improvements has spun our economic program out of control, and humanity as a whole--the protesters and the Google employees as well as the shareholders and the executives--are all trapped by the consequences. It's time to optimize our economy for the human beings it's supposed to be serving.
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed media scholar and author Douglas Rushkoff tells us how to combine the best of human nature with the best of modern technology. Tying together disparate threads--big data, the rise of robots and AI, the increasing participation of algorithms in stock market trading, the gig economy, the collapse of the eurozone--Rushkoff provides a critical vocabulary for our economic moment and a nuanced portrait of humans and commerce at a critical crossroads.
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Reviews for Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Interesting ideas, somewhat overoptimistic and gets a bit repetitive driving home the same point over and over. Like many idealists whilst imagining the future world of plenty he assumes that everyone on the planet is as nice a person as he is. It's like those people have never seen a bell curve or experienced a prisoner's dilemma situation in real life.
This is a nitpick but it sometimes gets a bit new-agey with all those homely, artisan, hand-made, heirloom, tactile things and at the end goes off the rails pointing at the pope, the Amish and aboriginal farmers as sources of knowledge. I assume we should learn how to treat women from the Amish and how to profit from money laundering from the pope. The author's rose tinted glasses just don't do it for me.