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Douglas Rushkoff, author of twenty books about media, technology, and society including Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Present Shock, and Program or Be Programmed is host of the Team Human podcast and Professor of Tactical Media at CUNY/Queens. He made the PBS Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool and Generation Like, and his graphic novels are being developed for television.