Named one of the “World’s 10 Most Influential Intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as Team Human, based on his podcast and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book, Coercion won The Marshall McLuhan Award and The Media Ecology Association honoured him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. He is also co-founder of a tech education project, Andus Labs.
