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Douglas Rushkoff: \u201cwe\u2019ve disabled the cognitive and collaborative skills needed to address climate change\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

How does our relationship with digital technologies alter our relationship with the future, with the present, and with our imaginations?\u00a0 It\u2019s a question we\u2019ve reflected on in various podcasts and interviews in this series. One of the books that most influenced me on this was Douglas Rushkoff<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Present Shock\u2019.\u00a0 Rushkoff is a writer, documentarian and lecturer, whose work focuses on human autonomy in a digital age.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a prolific guy. Fifteen books including the brilliantly-titled \u2018Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus\u2019, documentaries such as \u2018Generation Like\u2019 and \u2018Merchants of Cool\u2019, a podcast called \u2018Team Human\u2019, and several graphic novels. He has also worked as a stage fight choreographer, and played keyboards for industrial noise art terror combo Psychic TV.\u00a0 He is a winner of the beautifully named \u2018Neil Postman Award for Career Achivement in Public Intellectual Activity\u2019, and is currently Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY\/Queens in New York. It was a real honour to be able to speak to him recently via Skype. I started by asking what he meant in \u2018Present Shock\u2019 when we wrote \u201cour society has re-oriented itself to the present moment\u201d.<\/p>\n