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Throwing rocks at the Google bus

Paperback • 2017 • English • 1. edition

Throwing rocks at the Google bus: how growth became the enemy of prosperity

By Douglas Rushkoff

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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,...Show more

Political economy

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9780143131298

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2017

Language

English

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1

Original title

Throwing rocks at the Google bus

Format

Paperback

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