The Internet Used to Make Us Smarter. Now, Not So Much.

Going online went from an active choice to a constant state of being

Douglas Rushkoff
Team Human
Published in
4 min readApr 23, 2020

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The problem with media revolutions is that we too easily lose sight of what it is that’s truly revolutionary. By focusing on the shiny new toys and ignoring the human empowerment potentiated by these new media — the political and social capabilities they…

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Douglas Rushkoff
Team Human

Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm