interview
by DANIEL PINCHBECK
artworks by URS FISCHER
1. We’re rediscovering community, recreating society with mutual aid and unity.
2. Taking digital technology into our collective hands, and growing local networks.
3. We’re rooting for decentralization, and resisting technocratic control.
4. Fighting for equitable wealth distribution over digital dominance.
An American social critic who writes about the impacts of new technologies, Douglas Rushkoff is the author of many books, including Cyberia, Present Shock, and Media Virus!. In Survival of the Richest, his latest work, he explores the dominant mindset in Silicon Valley that has led to cascading social problems such as platforms that extract our data and amplify wealth…