Dennis AMay 30, 2023

#AI #DougRushkoff
“... They’re afraid the AIs are going to be as mean to them as they’ve been to us,” Rushkoff told the Guardian in an interview.

‘They’re afraid their AIs will come for them’: Doug Rushkoff on why tech billionaires are in escape mode | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

"The leading intellect on digital culture believes the recent tech reckoning is corrective justice for Silicon Valley barons"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/28/artificial-intelligence-doug-rushkoff-tech-billionaires-escape-mode

‘They’re afraid their AIs will come for them’: Doug Rushkoff on why tech billionaires are in escape mode

The leading intellect on digital culture believes the recent tech reckoning is corrective justice for Silicon Valley barons

The Guardian
OMNFeb 1, 2022
Doug Rushkoff - whose internet is it? https://visionon.tv/videos/watch/67664717-4fb4-4f2e-8541-94800615fa3a
Doug Rushkoff - whose internet is it?

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Show threadStrypeyMay 23, 2019
@mike I'll admit I don't know as much about the specifics of the US energy mix as my own country. But I do remember #DougRushkoff saying the solar industry already employs more US workers than the coal industry. Which suggests that renewables are making more progress there than most people realize, despite decades ofmassive subsidies to the fossil fuel industries (especially when you include #MilitaryKeynsianism). (2/2)
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StrypeyApr 22, 2019
I'm listening to #DougRushkoff's interview with #FredTurner on #TeamHuman and its occurs to me that we are presented with a false choice, when it comes to the future of democracy. One the one hand, we're being asked to resuscitate the old, centralized model of the "nation-station", and on the other hand to abandon it in favour of a completely fluid, distributed model of P2P consensus over social networks. A model that we've seen lend itself to massive tyrannies of structurelessness. (1/2)
Show threadStrypeyApr 17, 2019
@lj_writes as for poverty, that pretty much began with industrialization, when people were forced off the land and into cities that didn't have the capacity to accommodate them. People look at the early industrial era and assume things were even worse before then. Actually, it was pretty much the low point for human quality of life in all of history. Pre-industrial serfs ate better and had more holidays than most modern people. See #DougRushkoff's book #LifeInc. for references on that. (2/2)
StrypeyApr 1, 2019

"[Zuckerberg's] notion that connecting the whole world on one network was so obviously a good idea that it justified whatever means were necessary to get there."
- #RogerMcNamee talking to #DougRushkoff on #TeamHuman

An otherwise laudable desire for universal human unity, without respect for #DueProcess, or community rights to be autonomous from larger structures of power, is the essence of Empire. #KenWilbur pointed this out in 'A Brief History of Everything'. Democracy is network, not empire.

Show threadStrypeyMar 14, 2019

@aral could I suggest an addition?

> "Is owned and controlled by individuals ..."

... *and our communities*

The #NeoLiberal myth of the atomized, sovereign individual was a crucial part of the sale pitch for the centralized "social media" #DataFarms, which claimed it was providing a "democratic" platform for "peer-to-peer" interactions between them. #SmallTech needs to assert that cooperation is essential to individual freedom, and sovereignty is a team sport, to paraphrase #DougRushkoff.

StrypeyMar 5, 2019
@humanetech was that expert #DougRushkoff by any chance? I've heard him tell stories that sounds similar to this on his #TeamHuman podcast
@paulfree14
Show threadStrypeyJan 17, 2019
@clacke private debt implies usury, which implies that there is extra value to be extracted as a "return on investment". Enough to make it worth the risk of defaults. With a lot of latent economic energy, the returns are not high enough, or the scale not big enough, or the timeframe for result not short enough, to interest the lenders who are sitting on all the gold on behalf of the 1%. Besides, as #DougRushkoff explains in #ThrowingRocks... this just reinforces the financialization of power.
Show threadStrypeyJan 17, 2019
@msh in that case it's pretty easy to know; it was killed on purpose by the central government. The monopoly on issuing currency is almost as important to the essence of the state as the monopoly on the use of force, and as important as the power to tax. In every country, states have sabotaged or outright banned local currencies, to enforce this power. #DougRushkoff goes into that history in his book #LifeInc.
@clacke