Throwing rocks at the Google bus : how growth became the enemy of prosperity /
Rushkoff, Douglas,
Throwing rocks at the Google bus : how growth became the enemy of prosperity / Douglas Rushkoff - viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index
Introduction: What's wrong with this picture? -- Removing humans from the equation. Digital industrialism ; Mass mass mass ; The digital marketplace : winner takes all ; The economy of likes ; The big data play ; Sharing economics : getting humans back "on the books" ; The unemployment solution -- The growth trap. Corporations are programs ; The platform monopoly ; Recoding the corporation ; The steady-state enterprise -- The speed of money. Coin of the realm ; Reprogramming money--bank vaults to blockchains ; Money is a verb -- Investing without exiting. Finance ls nothing personal ; Do algorithms dream of digital derivatives? ; Investment gamified : the startup ; Ventureless capital : the patience of crowds ; Fully invested--factors beyond capital -- Distributed. Digital distributism ; Renaissance now?
An exploration of the digital economy draws on contemporary and historical sources to argue for a new economic program that utilizes the unique distributive power of the Internet while breaking free of the winner-take-all game-defining business today
9781617230172 1617230170
Information technology--Economic aspects
Electronic commerce
HC79.I55 / R87 2016 HC79.I55 / R87 2016
Throwing rocks at the Google bus : how growth became the enemy of prosperity / Douglas Rushkoff - viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index
Introduction: What's wrong with this picture? -- Removing humans from the equation. Digital industrialism ; Mass mass mass ; The digital marketplace : winner takes all ; The economy of likes ; The big data play ; Sharing economics : getting humans back "on the books" ; The unemployment solution -- The growth trap. Corporations are programs ; The platform monopoly ; Recoding the corporation ; The steady-state enterprise -- The speed of money. Coin of the realm ; Reprogramming money--bank vaults to blockchains ; Money is a verb -- Investing without exiting. Finance ls nothing personal ; Do algorithms dream of digital derivatives? ; Investment gamified : the startup ; Ventureless capital : the patience of crowds ; Fully invested--factors beyond capital -- Distributed. Digital distributism ; Renaissance now?
An exploration of the digital economy draws on contemporary and historical sources to argue for a new economic program that utilizes the unique distributive power of the Internet while breaking free of the winner-take-all game-defining business today
9781617230172 1617230170
Information technology--Economic aspects
Electronic commerce
HC79.I55 / R87 2016 HC79.I55 / R87 2016