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This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend the landscape The Mindset has created — a world alive with algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies — and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human interdependency.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205903515826,"sku":"9781915590244","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781915590244_fbecf5c5-b383-48ad-8b04-aa4dddb1e117.jpg?v=1786030490"},{"product_id":"9780241004418","title":"Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy doesn't the explosive growth of companies such as Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? How could things be different?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 per cent versus the 1 per cent. Rather they were symptomatic of the true conflict of our age, between humanity as a whole and a digital economy in which boundless growth is valued above all else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, Douglas Rushkoff - named one of the world's ten most influential thinkers by MIT - lays out a ground plan for a different economic and social future. Ranging from big data to the rise of robots, from the gig economy to the collapse of the eurozone, Rushkoff shows how we can combine the best of human nature with the best of modern technology to achieve a state of sustainable, distributed wealth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's time the economy finally worked for the human beings it's supposed to serve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Douglas Rushkoff is one of today's most incisive media theorists and a provocative critic of our digital economy. 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Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once a means of exchange, is now a means of exploitation; education, conceived as a way to elevate the working class, has become another assembly line; and the internet has only further divided us into increasingly atomised and radicalised groups.   Team Human delivers a call to arms. If we are to resist and survive these destructive forces, we must recognise that being human is a team sport. In Rushkoff’s own words: “Being social may be the whole point”. Harnessing wide-ranging research on human evolution, biology and psychology, Rushkoff shows that when we work together we realise greater happiness, productivity and peace. If we can find others who understand this fundamental truth and reassert our humanity—together—we can make the world a better place to be human.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56289652539765,"sku":"9780393541533","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393541533_e3c247c9-7105-4896-bc53-715a08d53a3b.jpg?v=1786013598"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-douglas-rushkoff.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}