Program or be programmed

This interview was used by permission from the current issue of RT Book Reviews - January 2012.

I wrote this piece six years ago for Arthur magazine, anticipating or at least wishing for the Occupy movement. LSD magazine just republished it in their latest issue with some beautiful graphics,

A book can have more influence for being destroyed than having existed in the first place. This week isn’t the first time my books have been destroyed, but it’s probably the most…

People have been asking for a transcript of the little speech I gave at Occupy Wall Street on Wenesday November 9. It amounts to a one-page summary of my book Life Inc. (In other words, if you…

OWS Teach-In with Douglas Rushkoff from Douglas Rushkoff on Vimeo.

(CNN) — Like the spokesmen for Arab dictators feigning bewilderment over protesters’ demands, mainstream television news reporters finally training their attention on the growing Occupy Wall…

(CNN) — The ire and angst accompanying Facebook’s most recent tweaks to its interface are truly astounding. The complaints rival the irritation of AOL’s dial-up users back in the mid-’90s, who…

All the fixation on creating jobs in America is outdated and misguided, argues media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff. He explains to WSJ’s Dennis Berman his theory on new models that could…

Editor’s note: Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist and the author of “Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age” and “Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We…

(CNN) — In the past, people seemed to require a massive “cue” to form a mob. The New York blackouts of the summer of 1977 resulted in citywide looting, not just because alarm systems were down,…

Twelve books after Cyberia, my first Wired review! And interview!

Now that much of what Rushkoff has predicted over the years has come to pass, he is uniquely qualified to write what may be one…

An anonymous donor has put up $30,000 for me to use at the Contact…

Giant interview with me about alt.topics, just published in a (for now) web-only magazine called LSD.

Here’s the link.

Here are two fun new ones. The first is a clip of an evening interview last month for “Rushkoff on Broadway” with Newsweek’s Jeremy McCarter. They should be showing the whole thing on cableTV…

Nice summary of last week’s event via PBS.org‘s Need to Know blog.

“So I browsed the Net for three hours. Did I make anyone happier? Did it earn me money? Am I a better person? So why did I…

I’m about to hole up to write another book and spend more time with family. But before I do, I thought it might be nice to punctuate the last few years of writing and thinking with one…

You are cordially invited to my canonization. This one should be fun. Sunday evening in NYC. Or live streamed from here:

Douglas Rushkoff Gets Sainted At This Week’s Church Of…

The indie publication of Program or Be Programmed meant no reviews in the traditional publishing press journals (Kirkus, PW) but Library Journal has become a real friend to the book and its…