How to be 'Team Human' in the digital future | Douglas Rushkoff

Humans are no longer valued for our creativity, says media theorist Douglas Rushkoff -- in a world dominated by digital technology, we're now just valued for our data. In a passionate talk, Rushkoff urges us to stop using technology to optimize people for the market and start using it to build a future centered on our pre-digital values of connection, creativity and respect. "Join 'Team Human.' Find the others," he says. "Together let's make the future that we always wanted."

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[HumansOfVR]

*Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much*

[HumansOfVR]

*The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team*

[Bladestrummer]

From minute 10:00 are his best statements and I agree with them. I started working in 'digital' i.e. with computers in 1977. What drives the misuse of any form of technology (like the bullet in a gun, or the gun) is what humans intend to do with it. The race towards making humans redundant is a political act. You can change it.

[CrobatDash]

The irony of seeing this on YouTube rather than in the audience of gated events like these, where communication after a talk like this is built in.
I’m going to post this on Facebook as well. Does that further the irony?

It doesn’t, if there are actionable proposals that come out of discussions about this video, talks with my friends and with strangers.
Actual real life meetings to discuss how to tackle problems in your community, city, country, world.

After a video like this? Go to a protest. A town hall. A community meeting. Pick up trash as the US government is shut down.

Make good art with friends and spread it like a wildfire. Don’t be ashamed to talk to your friends, even if it eventually leads to you asking something of them. They will enjoy the conversation and know it’s okay to ask you for help too. They are your friends.

[BiancaAguglia]

That was absolutely brilliant. I'm happy and proud to be part of team human. Wonderful job, Douglas Rushkoff. ❤️

[MarcyB]

Really enjoyed this. What grinds my gears the most, is talking about AI taking over as if it's some machine being developed by a rival species. We literally created the technology, harnessing what we know about the world. We could simply choose not to develop AI, but greed drives all, so now we sound like spectators watching until the day this beast commandeers the reins.

[EricBZink]

Great video and people helping people in any way makes a difference! Always find inspiration here for my channel especially with how tech is now days!

[FyreflyIV]

An inspiring speech. Kinda relate about the man isolating himself from the world - I've had similar thoughts and fantasies even though I am still just a student.

[dheandrahongo]

It does make sense now. I mean, humans are special in their own way and we can't compare it to technology like robot. we actually can't say that robot is better than human since human created the robot, right? This world needs a lot of people like him, who is brave to voice his opinion. Thanks for the talk! Really learned a lot and so far the best ted talk I've ever watched :)

[poweroffriendship.]

*Team Alien:* [chuckles] I'm in danger.

[Rubs]

Such necessary human like Douglas in times like these

[justworse]

"Do you think God stays in heaven, because he too lives in fear of what he has created?"
-Steve Buscemi

[motivacionenfamilia]

Seguiremos trabajando desde nuestro espacio para que la realidad sea lo que siempre debió ser. Gracias por vídeos tan instructivos.

[alinealv.silv.]

Certainly it is not about rejecting the technology, it is about the matter of retrieving values that are in danger of being leaving behind, the matter of embedding them in the digital infraestructure for the future. It's about distinguishing what exactly it is the progress and advancement of humanity, from the technological advance. This is, the matter to know how somate these advances and not the complete isolation from them, warning technological advances without the correct preservation of community sense. Instead of earn money insulating ourselves form the world we're creating, invest our energy in promote a conection of cooperativity in sense of comunity as priority, promote noveltys with protagonism and in maintence of human creativity. A warning about evolution is a collaborative act : "The day when computers are smarter than people will come really soon, and the only option for people at that point will it be pass the torch of evolution to the successor and fade into the background, uploud your consciousness at silicon chip and accept your extinction ." - Rushkoff

[FynePrntWilliamsMUSC]

Technology, the gift and the curse. Depends on how you use it.
A lot of curse going on. Lol

[nguyenthanhmy]

Excellent talk i’ve listened to. Thanks for uploading

[ThePsysard]

I’m on team human! Always learn from you ❤️😍

[vbywrde]

Yes. This is spot on. In fact it strikes at the core of the problem with modern tech. What we started out with was an open ended technological collaboration system. What we got was hijacked by a handful of sharky dudes who figured out how to manipulate everyone. Now they're looking for an escape hatch because they're bringing on the Apocalypse in the form of the Singularity. Yep. Good luck with the escape plan.

Meanwhile, I've been working along the collaboration and humanity track since 1994 when I registered the specs of my project with the copyright office. If you are curious about what a platform would look like that encourages creativity and shares the profit of people's creative endeavors, you're welcome to look me up. I don't want to splash my project name here like some sort of ad, so I'm not going to mention it here. But it's out there. And there are other projects out there. People who want to foster human creativity are being obscured by the glitz and media glare... but we are out here. Being human.

[Tinsiltim]

the fact this video only has 110k views is criminal. The topics discussed in this video could enlighten so many people to the cuases of our problems and what we actually need to do to fix it. Someone definitely had this one sandbagged

[SendyTheEndless]

This guy gets it. The corporate invasion of every aspect of our life, thoughts, behaviours and futures.

We need to tear this brave new world down. Together.