TY - BOOK AU - Rushkoff,Douglas TI - Throwing rocks at the Google bus: how growth became the enemy of prosperity SN - 9781617230172 AV - HC79.I55 R87 2016 PY - 2016///] CY - New York, New York PB - Portfolio/Penguin KW - Information technology KW - Economic aspects KW - Electronic commerce N1 - 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? N2 - 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 ER -