Team Human

Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at the Partnership on AI (PAI) Claire Leibowicz, Tech Policy Press CEO and Editor Justin Hendrix, Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff come up with guiding principles for the future of artificial intelligence on a live panel discussion recorded at Betaworks on Monday, April 3.

Executive Director of the Institute for the Future Marina Gorbis and Institute for the Future Equitable Enterprise Initiative Advisor Jerry Davis discuss how to change the register from industrial values to collaborative commerce.

Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream Alissa Quart helps us dispel the myth of the self-made man once and for all.

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the sixth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, February 17, 2023.Rushkoff fields questions about virtual reality’s potential to transform storytelling, what it means to be punk, and how artists can navigate recent tech layoffs.

Journalist, Tea Pub operator, and Founder of SolarPunk Stories Alex Holland helps us learn to tell better and more constructive stories about our collective future.

Co-founder of the Commons Stack and Token Engineering researcher at BlockScience Jeff Emmett tells us about the wonders of mycelia - and why we may all want to start considering ourselves mycopunks.

Organizer, The Connector journalist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us evaluate how directly we need to be involved in political activism to keep democracy sustainable.

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fifth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, January 20, 2023.Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will change the educational landscape, the worldviews that emerged from 1950s speculative fiction, and why media ecology never took off in Europe.

Library technologist, owner of MetaFilter, and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn West shares the joys of hands-on technology education in the public library - and how modeling behavior may just work better than scaling it.

Playing for Team Human today, historian of alternative spirituality and author of Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences, Mitch Horowitz helps us figure out if we’re praying to the wrong gods.

In a special holiday message, Rushkoff imagines a world where infectious - not effective - altruism is the goal of communities.

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fourth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.Rushkoff fields questions about how his views on internet privacy have evolved over the last two decades, the different sensibilities of young generations, and his recent writing.

Software engineer, computer scientist, and creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great Molly White helps us determine whether Web3 is really going just great for humanity — and helps us figure out how much skepticism to have about the blockchain.

Game Designer and author of The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design, Eric Zimmerman helps us discover how learning to play can keep us from being played.

Writer and director of documentary and narrative films Noah Hutton helps us recognize the power and perfection in what might otherwise be considered our failings and mistakes.

Journalist and author of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back , Cory Doctorow shares his latest thoughts on the ways the economy and creativity are being hacked by the perpetrators of chokepoint capitalism.

Douglas Rushkoff joins Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin, authors of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back, for a special panel recorded live from Ottawa International Writers Festival on October 24, 2022.

Comedian and Creator of the Deep Healing Podcast Greg Barris shares the open secret to collective healing: Laughing together.

Douglas Rushkoff joins author Stephen Oram, editor Benjamin Greenaway, and cofounder of Cyberia Eva Pascoe for a special conversation about speculative fiction in celebration of the release of CyberSalon’s 22 Ideas About The Future. How does speculative fiction help us reveal truths we may have hidden from ourselves?

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the third Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.He fields questions from community members about Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, the possibilities of Web3 after Ethereum’s swtich from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, and how we can find hope in entertainment.