Keynote: Douglas Rushkoff on When Change is Always On

media, technology and society, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Coercion, Life Inc, and, most recently, Program or Be Programmed. He made the Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He teaches regularly at NYU and The New School and lectures around the world. Rushkoff won the Media Ecology Association's Marshall McLuhan Award, as well as the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. He is media and technology commentator for CNN, and a regular guest on media from NPR to Colbert Report.
Rushkoff is most famous for having originated the concepts of "viral media," "social currency," and "digital natives," as well as applying the open source ethos to democracy and religion. He serves as an advisor to companies from Meetup to Common Equity, writes graphic novels (Testament and A.D.D.), and occasionally plays keyboards with PsychicTV.

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[Joshua Chance]

This guy is always on point. He's the reason I do programming now

[selklove]

everyones too scared to comment lol

[justgivemethetruth]

Is it me of does Douglas Rushkoff look like he is from an alien planet! ;-)

Facebook is extracting more value from us because we have no idea what it is doing.

There is no distributed leadership in American, democracy is a farce.

This narrative is really forced, and the attempts to use Jeremy Lin as a gateway drug to socialism is kind of dorky. Silly that people have to do this schtick to earn a living before they can really be honest to people. Good luck Doug! ;-)