Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus : how growth became the enemy of prosperity / Douglas Rushkoff

Introduction: What's wrong with this picture? -- Chapter One -- REMOVING HUMANS FROM THE EQUATIONS -- 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 -- The speed of money -- Investing without exiting -- Distributed. Chapter Two -- THE GROWTH TRAP -- Corporation Are Programs -- The Platform Monopoly -- Recording the Corporation -- The Steady-State Enterprise -- Chapter Three -- THE SPEED OF MONEY -- Coin of the Realm -- Reprogramming Money - Bank Vaults to Blackchains -- Money is aVerb -- Chapter Four -- INVESTING WITHOUT EXITING -- Finance is nothing Personal -- Do algorithms Dream of Digital Dervatives? -- Investment Gamified: The Startup -- Ventureless Capital: The Patience of Crowds -- Fully Invested - Factors Beyond Capital . Chapter Five -- DISTRIBUTED -- Digital Distributism -- Renaissance Now

"When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn’t between the unem­ployed and the digital elite, or even the 99 percent and the 1 percent. Rather, a tornado of technological improvements has spun our economic program out of control, and humanity as a whole—the protesters and the Google employees as well as the shareholders and the executives—are all trapped by the consequences. It’s time to optimize our economy for the human beings it’s supposed to be serving.

In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed media scholar and author Douglas Rushkoff tells us how to combine the best of human nature with the best of modern technology. Tying together disparate threads—big data, the rise of robots and AI, the increasing participation of algorithms in stock market trading, the gig economy, the collapse of the eurozone—Rushkoff provides a critical vocabulary for our economic moment and a nuanced portrait of humans and commerce at a critical crossroads and a path forward."