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Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff is the host of the Team Human podcast and a professor of digital economics at CUNY/Queens. He is also the author of a dozen bestselling books on media,[…]

The internet made us weird – just not in the right way

Have swipes and scrolls replaced deep thinking?

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