Douglas Rushkoff (us)
With Douglas Rushkoff, Elevate welcomes one of the most influential media and technology theorists of the past three decades. Since the early 1990s, Rushkoff has accompanied and analysed the digital transformation of society – from the first net cultures and the promises of platform capitalism to the techno-authoritarian tendencies shaping Silicon Valley today. In books such as Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Team Human and his much-discussed essay Survival of the Richest, he interrogates the ideologies of the tech industry and reveals how its power structures shape social, political and economic relations.