Douglas Rushkoff

Bio

Douglas Rushkoff is the author of a dozen bestselling books on media, culture, and technology - most recently, "Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back." He has made three Frontline documentaries, and hopes to get a job at the New School.

Abstract

From Open Source to Crowdsourcing: How corporations co-opt collaboration.

The renaissance in digital technology may be more like the original Renaissance than we think. What appears to be an explosion of human ingenuity and participation may actually be the emergence of a new array of institutions and technologies for the further centralization of our culture and economy.