Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2016
Summary
Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies such as Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? How could things be different?
In San Francisco in 2013, activists protesting against the gentrification of their city smashed the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work. But these protests weren’t just a question of the activists versus the Googlers, or even the 99 percent versus the 1 percent. Rather, they were symptomatic of the true conflict of our age: between…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241004418 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241004411 |
| Author: | Douglas Rushkoff |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Portfolio Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 379g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 20mm |
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Douglas Rushkoff is one of today’s most incisive media theorists and a provocative critic of our digital economy. He’s also fun to read
Douglas Rushkoff is one of today’s most incisive media theorists and a provocative critic of our digital economy. He’s also fun to read * Walter Isaacson *
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About The Author
Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff is the author of many bestselling books on media, technology and culture, including Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed and Media Virus. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels Testament and A.D.D., and made the television documentaries Generation Like, Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society and economics around the world.
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