Renaissance Prospects
Douglas Rushkoff,
IT Conversations,
Jan 10, 2005
Douglas Rushkoff "tries to picture connectedness and ecology as a base for a second Renaissance ("a rebirth of old ideas in a new context") as a deconstruction of the first Renaissance, the one that created (wo)man and economy" (Thomas N. Burg). I like Rushkoff a lot, and this 45 minute lecture doesn't disappoint. I miss his books - I can't buy them here (my local Chapters is well into a process of dumbing down its book collection, eliminating anything challnging or useful from its shelves). (I'm listening to it now as I type - gosh, I like Rushkoff!) The MP3 is here. "The old context, the one we can't get out of, is seeing our world as an economy instead of seeing our world as an ecology." And "The market might not be the best model.. to love our families" (think of the 'opportunity cost' of marriage).
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