Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. In 1791, Alexander Hamilton imposed a new tax on Americans – both as a way of paying down the national debt and, in his… Read the rest of the article: Whiskey Rebellion Anniversary

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. William Hogeland, author of The Whiskey Rebellion, is out with a new one from MIT Press called Inventing American History. Given the interest and… Read the rest of the article: Inventing American History

Douglas Rushkoff – the author of Life Inc. – is a guest blogger. GM made this short stop-motion animation in 1939 (long before Lego's little people who look like this… Read the rest of the article: It's All in the Widgets

Douglas Rushkoff, the author of Life Inc., is a guest blogger. I've been getting lots of great (and some angry-but-still-great) email from bb readers contesting and inquiring about a couple… Read the rest of the article: Greed is an Excuse, Not an Instinct

Douglas Rushkoff, the author of Life Inc., is a guest blogger. No, not an essay from me about the end of money, but a great new book from Thomas Greco… Read the rest of the article: The End of Money and the Looting of America

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. I've been obsessed with South Korea since visiting there earlier this year for a story on pro gamers. Beyond or perhaps encouraging cultural/national stereotypes,… Read the rest of the article: RFID for your Fried Chicken

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. Paul Krassner posted an interesting response to the attacks on Jon Stewart for having called Harry Truman a "war criminal" and then apologizing.  I… Read the rest of the article: Krassner: Stewart was right the first time

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. My friend and colleague Janine Saunders just finished this 9-minute video, Life Inc: The Movie, which previews and visualizes some of the core concepts… Read the rest of the article: Life Inc: The Movie

Douglas Rushkoff – author of the book Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back – is a guest blogger. I'll be posting an… Read the rest of the article: Life Inc: Chapter One, part one

Douglas Rushkoff – author of the book Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back – is a guest blogger. Here's another great cartoon… Read the rest of the article: Martians Learn about the Free Market from the Oil Industry

Douglas Rushkoff, the author of Life Inc., is a guest blogger. We're supposed to take heart in the fact that the Treasury Department's bank "stress tests" didn't come out worse.… Read the rest of the article: If the banks are so healthy, how come we're all still broke?

Douglas Rushkoff – author of the book Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back – is a guest blogger. I've started doing a… Read the rest of the article: MediaSquat Radio Show

Douglas Rushkoff, the author of Life Inc., is a guest blogger. Here's Patrick Dixon, of Siemens, advertising as features all the things about RFID tags that I always thought should… Read the rest of the article: RFIDs on the Brain

Douglas Rushkoff, the author of Life Inc., is a guest blogger. Most people seem to think having written a book as stridently anti-corporate as mine qualifies me as a lefty.… Read the rest of the article: The Economist Gets Something Right

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. I spent a bit of time trying to convince Craig Newmark to develop an alternative currency with me for use, initially, on Craigslist called… Read the rest of the article: Tipjoy.com, a possible home for CraigBucks

Douglas Rushkoff, the author of Life Inc., is a guest blogger. I just had a great hour-long phone conversation with an old friend, Will Dana (now editor of Rolling Stone),… Read the rest of the article: Debt is not a good product

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. It's thesis week at ITP, where you can go through Friday to watch students present the projects they've been working on – some of… Read the rest of the article: ITP Thesis Week – Tweenbots

(Douglas Rushkoff, the author of Life Inc., is a guest blogger.) I've been working on a year-long PBS Frontline project called Digital Nation, which will culminate as a one-hour tv… Read the rest of the article: Digital Warriors – The next MK Ultra?

(Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. ) Fascinating video from C-Span of the Senate Hearings on healthcare reform. Senator Max Baucus tries to quell a stream of protesters. As Personal… Read the rest of the article: Democracy Trying to Work

(Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger.) Just as in the original Renaissance, our world has gone map-crazy. But instead of simply marking off territory as national or corporate property, the… Read the rest of the article: The Geospatial Revolution