Media Theorists

Team Human vs. The Digital Machine: Can We Reclaim Our Humanity? (Part 2) – with Douglas Rushkoff . Are we losing our humanity in the digital age? Or is there still hope for Team Human? . In Part 2 of this mind-expanding conversation, Douglas Rushkoff—one of the world’s top 10 influential intellectuals (according to MI

Welcome to episode #975 of Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast. Nicholas Carr has long been one of the most important voices questioning how technology is shaping our minds, our communication, and our culture (and a personal favorite). His latest book, Superbloom - How Technologies of Connection Tear Us

Escaping the Apocalypse: Billionaire Fantasies, AI Feudalism & the Future of Humanity | Douglas Rushkoff (Part 1) . 🚨 Are billionaires secretly planning their escape from the world they helped destroy? Have we unknowingly accepted digital feudalism as the new normal? . In this mind-bending conversation, Dov Baron sits

Michael welcomes Nicholas Carr, author of "Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart," a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society. From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communicati

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nicholas Carr is always a major event. And today’s release of SUPERBLOOM: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart offers a prescient critique of our social media age. As Carr explains, our assumption that more communication leads to better understanding is fundamentally wr

There has been a lot of cultural discussion of the way digital technologies and social media contribute to things like political polarization and adolescent depression. But as I'll explore with Nicholas Carr, the author of Superbloom, our digital tools are also changing our ability to connect with others and our sense