The digital technology that was designed to meaningfully connect people has created a landscape of passive users who have unwittingly become the product. A recent survey finds that 42% of the time Americans are awake, their eyes are fixated on a television, smartphone, computer, tablet, or other device. Can humans reconnect to their true social nature and reignite visions of their many possible futures or will human dreams be extinguished by artificial intelligence? Our guest award winning author Douglas Rushkoff points out how neuroscientists have confirmed that humans need input from organic three dimensional space in order to establish trusting relationships.
In his newly published book Team Human, Rushkoff says its time to intervene on our own behalf and return to facing each other literally in business, education, diplomacy and romance.
Guest – Douglas Rushkoff is also a media theorist and broadcaster. He hosts the podcast Team Human and has written twenty books including Present Shock, Media Virus, Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus and Siberia. Rushkoff has originated concepts such as viral media and social currency. He is also the leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice.