Name: 【TED】Douglas Rushkoff: How to be "Team Human" in the digital future (How to be "Team Human" in the digital future | Douglas Rushkoff)
Uploaded: 2019-01-14T17:01:05.000Z
Duration: 12 min 24 s
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to deliver a talk about the digital future

to what I assumed would be a couple of hundred tech executives.

And I was there in the green room, waiting to go on,

and instead of bringing me to the stage, they brought five men into the green room

who sat around this little table with me.

And they started peppering me with these really binary questions,

I don't know if they were taking bets or what.

And as they got more comfortable with me,

they edged towards their real question of concern.

These tech billionaires were asking a media theorist for advice

We spent the rest of the hour on the single question:

"How do I maintain control of my security staff

By "the event" they mean the thermonuclear war

or climate catastrophe or social unrest that ends the world as we know it,

and more importantly, makes their money obsolete.

these are the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world,

yet they see themselves as utterly powerless to influence the future.

The best they can do is hang on for the inevitable catastrophe

and then use their technology and money to get away from the rest of us.

And these are the winners of the digital economy.

It spanned everything from chaos math and quantum physics

to fantasy role-playing and the Gaia hypothesis, right?

We believed that human beings connected could create any future we could imagine.

And the digital future became stock futures.

And we used all that energy of the digital age

to pump steroids into the already dying NASDAQ stock exchange.

The tech magazines told us a tsunami was coming.

And only the investors who hired the best scenario-planners and futurists

And so the future changed from this thing we create together in the present

in some kind of a zero-sum winner-takes-all competition.

And when things get that competitive about the future,

humans are no longer valued for our creativity.

Because they can use the data to make predictions.

Creativity, if anything, that creates noise.

that really repressed creativity, repressed novelty,

Does social media really connect people in new, interesting ways?

No, social media is about using our data to predict our future behavior.

Or when necessary, to influence our future behavior

so that we act more in accordance with our statistical profiles.

The digital economy -- does it like people?

No, if you have a business plan, what are you supposed to do?

Human beings, they want health care, they want money, they want meaning.

they don't help us form any rapport or solidarity.

I mean, where's the button on the ride hailing app

for the drivers to talk to one another about their working conditions

they don't allow us to establish real rapport.

However good the resolution of the video,

you still can't see if somebody's irises are opening to really take you in.

All of the things that we've done to establish rapport

that we've developed over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution,

you can't see if someone's breath is syncing up with yours.

So the mirror neurons never fire, the oxytocin never goes through your body,

you never have that experience of bonding with the other human being.

"Well, they agreed with me, but did they really,

And we don't blame the technology for that lack of fidelity.

You know, even the technologies and the digital initiatives that we have

The blockchain is here to help us have a great humanized economy? No.

The blockchain does not engender trust between users,

the blockchain simply substitutes for trust in a new,

I mean, education is great, we love education,

that we want kids to be able to get jobs in the digital future,

But since when is education about getting jobs?

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【TED】Douglas Rushkoff: How to be "Team Human" in the digital future (How to be "Team Human" in the digital future | Douglas Rushkoff)

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