Porchlight Business Book Awards season is here.

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

By Douglas Rushkoff

Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone. What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else. When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected.

READ FULL DESCRIPTION

Quantity Price Discount
List Price $28.00  

Quick Quote

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit

Non-returnable discount pricing

$28.00


Book Information

Publisher: Portfolio
Publish Date: 03/01/2016
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781617230172
ISBN-10: 1617230170
Language: Eng

What We're Saying

December 21, 2016

Big ideas and new perspectives someday become, once enacted, status quo. It will take a while, but the first step is often powerful voices writing powerful books. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

November 01, 2016

If you're going to read 40 business books published in 2016, make them this 40—or, I suppose, choose from among them. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

March 03, 2016

Douglas Rushkoff, in his usual expansive and incredibly erudite manner, dissects the digital economy and points a more considered way forward. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

Full Description

Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else? 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 unem-ployed 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.

About the Author

Douglas Rushkoff is the author of 10 bestselling books on media and culture, including Cyberia , Media Virus. , Playing the Future , Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say , and the novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy.

Learn More

We have updated our privacy policy. Click here to read our full policy.