Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff
Jun 19, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 18 segments
How do we keep the machine from pulling us into another world, or escaping into ours? Rushkoff is joined by OG game designer, hacker, and Director of Curiouser Institute Reed Berkowitz to explore the…
Reed BerkowitzGuest
Douglas RushkoffHost
Not for a specific substance, but maybe for my own optimistic reverie, my addiction to what could have been, what should have been, and trying to adapt to what is.
But I thought it might be fun to start with some of what could have been and it turns out it's not nostalgia, that it's OK for us to talk about some of the origins of stuff because now especially as I engage with students and people in the real world about what the net is and the internet and all, they have no idea what we were thinking.
I think half the time we didn't know what we were thinking when we first started out, but there was certainly a lot of emotion.
Not for a specific substance, but maybe for my own optimistic reverie, my addiction to what could have been, what should have been, and trying to adapt to what is.
But I thought it might be fun to start with some of what could have been and it turns out it's not nostalgia, that it's OK for us to talk about some of the origins of stuff because now especially as I engage with students and people in the real world about what the net is and the internet and all, they have no idea what we were thinking.
I think half the time we didn't know what we were thinking when we first started out, but there was certainly a lot of emotion.
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