Douglas Rushkoff

professor of media theory and data economics at Queens/CUNY, author of “Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires”

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Professor of media theory and digital economics at CUNY/Queens and author of several books on the media, technology and culture, including Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age and the upcoming Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

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