Team Human

By Douglas Rushkoff

What's Team Human about?

Team Human is a weekly podcast and set of resources enabling human intervention in the economic, technological, and social programs that determine how we live, work, and interact. This is media as cultural resistance and a path to social change. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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01.26.2023

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fifth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, January 20, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will change the ...

Team Human episodes:

01.26.2023 Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fifth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, January 20, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will change the ...
01.11.2023 Jessamyn West Library technologist, owner of MetaFilter, and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn West shares the joys of hands-on technology education in the public library - and how modeling behavior may just work better than scaling ...
01.04.2023 Mitch Horowitz Playing for Team Human today, historian of alternative spirituality and author of Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences, Mitch Horowitz helps us figure out if we’re praying to the wrong gods.
12.24.2022 Infectious Altruism - Holiday Special In a special holiday message, Rushkoff imagines a world where infectious - not effective - altruism is the goal of communities.
12.21.2022 Kibbitz Room IV live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fourth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. Rushkoff fields questions about how his views on internet privacy have evolved over the last two decades, the ...
12.14.2022 Molly White Software engineer, computer scientist, and creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great Molly White helps us determine whether Web3 is really going just great for humanity â and helps us figure out how much skepticism to have about the blockchain. ...
12.01.2022 Eric Zimmerman Game Designer and author of The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design, Eric Zimmerman helps us discover how learning to play can keep us from being played.
11.23.2022 Noah Hutton Writer and director of documentary and narrative films Noah Hutton helps us recognize the power and perfection in what might otherwise be considered our failings and mistakes.
11.16.2022 Cory Doctorow Journalist and author of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back , Cory Doctorow shares his latest thoughts on the ways the economy and creativity are being hacked by ...
11.09.2022 Surviving Apocalyptic Economics w/ Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin - Live from Ottawa International Writers Festival Douglas Rushkoff joins Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin, authors of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back, for a special panel recorded live from Ottawa International Writers Festival on ...
11.03.2022 Greg Barris Comedian and Creator of the Deep Healing Podcast Greg Barris shares the open secret to collective healing: Laughing together.
10.19.2022 In Celebration of Speculative Fiction: 22 Ideas About The Future Book Launch w/ Eva Pascoe, Stephen Oram, and Benjamin Greenaway Douglas Rushkoff joins author Stephen Oram, editor Benjamin Greenaway, and cofounder of Cyberia Eva Pascoe for a special conversation about speculative fiction in celebration of the release of CyberSalon’s 22 Ideas About The Future. How does speculative fiction help us ...
10.06.2022 Kibbitz Room III live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Playing for Team Human today, itâs Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the third Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. He fields questions from community members about Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, the ...
09.23.2022 Clinton Ignatov Essayist and McLuhan archivist Clinton Ignatov helps us understand Marshall McLuhan - and ourselves - in the context of the media environments we inhabit and the metaphors we use to understand them.
09.16.2022 Sherry Turkle Psychologist, sociologist, MIT Professor, and Author of Reclaiming Conversation and The Empathy Diaries, Sherry Turkle guest hosts Team Human in a special reverse interview to celebrate the release of Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. Turkle ...
09.14.2022 Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires - Twitter Spaces w/ Adrienne Gibbs Douglas Rushkoff joins Medium's Adrienne Gibbs for a special Twitter Spaces conversation about the launch of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. Originally recorded September 9, 2022.
09.09.2022 Jenny Odell Multi-disciplinary artist and author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell conducts a rare reverse interview with Douglas Rushkoff to celebrate the launch of Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. Odell interrogates ...
09.06.2022 Survival of the Richest On this weekâs episode, Douglas Rushkoff offers a special excerpt of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. đ Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available wherever books ...
08.31.2022 Paris Marx Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation and Host of Tech Won’t Save Us Paris Marx helps us see how the future of transportation imagined by our techno-benefactors may best be understood ...
08.24.2022 Marc Brickman The lighting genius behind Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen, experience designer, and artist Marc Brickman shows us how centering the person in the very last row of the theater makes the experience better for everyone.
08.10.2022 Janelle Orsi Playing for Team Human today, Co-Founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center and Senior Advisor to the Institute For The Future’s Equitable Enterprise Initiative, Janelle Orsi helps Rushkoff overcome his dream for a turn-key solution for greater wealth distribution.
08.03.2022 Kibbitz Room II live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the second Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. He fields questions from community members discussing how the ideals of the 1990s counterculture won, the role of ...
07.27.2022 Conner Habib Author of Hawk Mountain and Host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, Conner Habib shows us how shared stories and identification with each other’s trauma can help us find a new level of solidarity with one another.
07.20.2022 Ăliane Ubalijoro & David Jensen UNEP co-champions of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) Ăliane Ubalijoro and David Jensen help us see how to marry big, top-down efforts with bottom-up reality. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us that no matter how bad things ...
07.13.2022 Kibbitz Room live from the Virtual Apocalypse Bunker Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the first live Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. He fields questions from community members discussing the different ways of acknowledging the value created and extracted ...
07.06.2022 Philip Rosedale Founder of Second Life and High Fidelity Labs Philip Rosedale discusses the misguided efforts fueling Web3 and helps us retrieve the original mission for immersive social platforms.
06.29.2022 Lisa Lovebucket Founder of The Creative Arts Recruitment Squad and The Post Apocalypse School of Teesside Lisa Lovebucket shows us how learning to prepare for the worst may give us the resilience we need to avoid apocalypse altogether. đ In his monologue, ...
06.15.2022 Nick Kroll Actor, comedian, and Big Mouth creator Nick Kroll argues for the power of comedy in challenging times.
06.08.2022 A Closer Look at Cyberia (KOPB, 1994) - Preview Rushkoff explores the ecosystem of the early internet, the transition from a passive-to-active media environment, and how digital technology disrupts legacy media gatekeepers in a preview of this week's bonus content, an interview Rushkoff did about Cyberia for KOPB public ...
06.01.2022 Micah Sifry The Connector journalist, activist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us find a better, healthier way to metabolize current events.
05.25.2022 Cyberia @ Powell's Books (1994) - Preview Here's a preview of this week's bonus content: Douglas Rushkoff delivers a reading of Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace Rushkoff at Powell's Books in 1994.
05.18.2022 Sue Thomas Author of Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace Sue Thomas helps us recognize and restore the nature in our technology.
05.11.2022 Special Announcement: Survival of the Richest We always knew but now we know. The tech elite mean to leave us all behind. Tune in for a special announcement from Rushkoff about his new book, Survival of the Richest. Available everywhere September 6, 2022.
05.04.2022 Neşe Devenot and David Nickles Postdoctoral Scholar in Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Neşe Devenot and Managing Editor of Psymposia David Nickles help us evaluate the current psychedelic renaissance, as well as those who may be abusing the power unleashed ...
04.27.2022 Cyber Salon 2002 - Preview How can we come to understand the human propensity to organize chaotic experiences into narrative, and our tendency to mistake our narratives for reality? Rushkoff explores in a talk originally delivered at Cyber Salon 2002.
04.20.2022 Hannah Close Writer, researcher, and curator at Advaya Hannah Close helps to bring us from mere reciprocity to true kinship.
04.13.2022 Judaism as an Approach to Media and Society - Nothing Sacred Interview Preview How can we view Judaism as less of a religion and more of an approach to media and society? Rushkoff explains in an interview originally recorded April 2002. From KAOS radio, Olympia, Washington.
04.06.2022 Ari Wallach Founder and Director of Longpath and author of the upcoming book, Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs, Ari Wallach discusses the fundamentally human need to belong, and how it will determine our collective chances for survival.
03.30.2022 Douglas Rushkoff "There's No Such Thing as Content" - Trend Day Keynote Preview Here's an excerpt from a keynote talk Rushkoff delivered at Trend Day 2002, an annual conference presented by Der Spiegel. Rushkoff discusses how the advent of interactivity has rendered the main means of communication obsolete and why corporations feel threatened ...
03.23.2022 Mark Stahlman President of the Center for the Study for Digital Life Mark Stahlman explains East, West, and Digital, the three spheres he believes are shaping the future of civilization, and how understanding the way they interact can help us strategize a ...
03.16.2022 Douglas Rushkoff "Religion As Open-Source Proposition" - Preview Here's an excerpt from a keynote talk Rushkoff delivered at the Silicon Alley Jewish Center in the early-2000s. Rushkoff explores the tenants of Judaism to learn if they can be applied to surveillance technology.
03.09.2022 Laurie Segall Journalist, founder of Dot Dot Dot Media, and author of Special Characters: My Adventures with Tech's Titans and Misfits, Laurie Segall tells us what it’s like to interview people like Mark Zuckerberg, and why she holds out faith that their ...
02.23.2022 David McRaney Science journalist and author of the forthcoming book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion, David McRaney explores the circumstances under which minds can change - and what it means for all of us. đ In ...
02.16.2022 Douglas Rushkoff "Hidden Potential" - GEL 2006 Preview Here's an excerpt of a talk Rushkoff delivered at Good Experience Live (GEL) 2006 about how hidden potential is wasted potential. đ Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. Youâll instantly gain access to this conversation, ...
02.09.2022 Vicki Robin Author of Your Money or Your Life and Blessing the Hands That Feed Us Vicki Robin explains what it means to be a town cryer - and how to maintain our friendships and civil interdependence. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff ...
02.02.2022 Douglas Rushkoff "Open-Source Reality" - Preview Here's an excerpt of a talk Rushkoff delivered at the 2001 Reboot Conference in Denmark where he argues for alternate approaches to Silicon Valley's tech development. đ Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. Youâll instantly ...
01.26.2022 Divya Siddarth Political economist and social technologist at Microsoft, and a researcher at the RadicalxChange Foundation, Divya Siddarth introduces us to The Pluriverse and challenges us to consider just how many worlds are possible.
01.19.2022 Renee Hobbs Founder of the Media Education Lab and author of Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age Renee Hobbs joins Rushkoff to discuss how the enlightenment project can work without gatekeepers.
01.12.2022 Jamie Cohen Head of Education at Digital Void and cultural theorist Jamie Cohen walks us through — and hopefully to the other side — of our fascist media environment.
12.22.2021 Maggie McGuane Mass casualty animal rescuer Maggie McGuane shares the exhilarating joy of being part of the life force that is our planet.

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Team Human episodes:

Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Jessamyn West

Mitch Horowitz

Infectious Altruism - Holiday Special

Kibbitz Room IV live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Molly White

Eric Zimmerman

Noah Hutton

Cory Doctorow

Surviving Apocalyptic Economics w/ Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin - Live from Ottawa International Writers Festival

Greg Barris

In Celebration of Speculative Fiction: 22 Ideas About The Future Book Launch w/ Eva Pascoe, Stephen Oram, and Benjamin Greenaway

Kibbitz Room III live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Clinton Ignatov

Sherry Turkle

Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires - Twitter Spaces w/ Adrienne Gibbs

Jenny Odell

Survival of the Richest

Paris Marx

Marc Brickman

Janelle Orsi

Kibbitz Room II live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Conner Habib

Ăliane Ubalijoro & David Jensen

Kibbitz Room live from the Virtual Apocalypse Bunker

Philip Rosedale

Lisa Lovebucket

Nick Kroll

A Closer Look at Cyberia (KOPB, 1994) - Preview

Micah Sifry

Cyberia @ Powell's Books (1994) - Preview

Sue Thomas

Special Announcement: Survival of the Richest

Neşe Devenot and David Nickles

Cyber Salon 2002 - Preview

Hannah Close

Judaism as an Approach to Media and Society - Nothing Sacred Interview Preview

Ari Wallach

Douglas Rushkoff "There's No Such Thing as Content" - Trend Day Keynote Preview

Mark Stahlman

Douglas Rushkoff "Religion As Open-Source Proposition" - Preview

Laurie Segall

David McRaney

Douglas Rushkoff "Hidden Potential" - GEL 2006 Preview

Vicki Robin

Douglas Rushkoff "Open-Source Reality" - Preview

Divya Siddarth

Renee Hobbs

Jamie Cohen

Maggie McGuane

Ăliane Ubalijoro & David Jensen