Coverage & Interviews
Press
Selected press, interviews, reviews, profiles, talks, and media appearances spanning 1994–2025.
Interviews
2025
T-Online (German)
"Sie haben große Angst davor"
Purdue University Library
An Interview with Douglas Rushkoff
Sternstunde Philosophie (Swiss TV)
Das Mindset der Tech-Milliardäre
Fast Company Brasil
SXSW 2025 Backstage
LinkedIn
Rushkoff to speak at SXSW
Critkid.com
Rushkoff explains Algorithms (For Kids)
2024
Reframe Your Inbox
Not Every Positive Human Behavior is Going to Make Money for
Someone
Entheogenesis Australis
Douglas Rushkoff and Rich Haridy — In Conversation on
Technology, Psychedelics, and Human Values
LiFO (Greek)
Ντάγκλας Ράσκοφ
MIT Technology Review — Japan
An Interview with Douglas Rushkoff
Victrola Magazine
The Vinyl Five: Douglas Rushkoff picks five records
UNESCO Courier
Reading is still a unique experience for kids
The Moment.AT (German)
Wie Superreiche der Erde entfliehen und uns zurücklassen
wollen
2023
El País (English)
Writer Douglas Rushkoff: The tech elite are planning for the
apocalypse
IBC365
Douglas Rushkoff on AI Media
The Guardian
They're afraid their AIs will come for them: Doug Rushkoff
on why tech billionaires are in escape mode
Wired Italia
Perché dobbiamo fermare l'Elon Musk che c'è in ognuno di noi
Current Affairs
The Apocalyptic Delusions of the Silicon Valley Elite
2022
Philadelphia Public Library
Author Events: Kevin Werbach Interviews Rushkoff on Survival
of the Richest
WBUR On Point
In Survival of the Richest, author Douglas Rushkoff examines
the escape plans of the tech elite
The Boston Globe
Escape plans of the rich and famous
Vice
Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
2021
Nomad Magazine
Human Beings Are the Solution
2019
The Economist
Calling in Team Human to combat the maladies of digital
media
PBS Amanpour & Company
Author Douglas Rushkoff on Why Tech is Tearing Us Apart
2017
Nonprofit Quarterly
The Sustainability Prerogative: Nonprofits in the Future of
our Economy
Heleo
Against The Clock: How Technology Has Changed Our Experience
Of Time
2016
Inc.
What Twitter, Google, And Politics Have In Common
Vice
The Economy Needs to Be More Human: A Chat With Douglas
Rushkoff
Fast Company
Douglas Rushkoff's New Podcast Explores The Future Of Humans
In A Digital World
Reinvent Futures
Bringing People and Places to the Table
52 Insights
Has Technology Failed Us?
Singularity Hub
Staying Human in the Machine Age: An Interview With Douglas
Rushkoff
Digital Trends
Why isn't the digital economy making life better? Douglas
Rushkoff has an answer
Slate
Douglas Rushkoff's Advice for the Next President
Handelsblatt
The Silicon Valley Skeptic
DLD Conference
Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus
Medium (Mark Frauenfelder)
Amazon is Just Walmart on Digital Drugs
Univision
Lo que hay detrás de la guerra de clases en San Francisco
PC Magazine
Interview: Author Douglas Rushkoff
Fast Company
Does This Make My Customers Rich? Business Tips For The
Future Steady-State Economy
The Guardian
Douglas Rushkoff: I'm thinking it may be good to be off
social media altogether
2015
SXSW
Douglas Rushkoff Talks Digital Technology on Steroids
Global Ethics Forum
A Conversation with Douglas Rushkoff
2013
The Motley Fool
An Interview with Douglas Rushkoff
92NY
Brain Jazz: A Mind-Jam with Jason Silva and Douglas Rushkoff
The New York Times
One on One: Douglas Rushkoff on Everything Happening Now
2011
Wall Street Journal
Does America Really Need More Jobs?
2010
Daily Kos
Program or be Programmed: Q & A with Douglas Rushkoff
2009
Fast Company
The Meaning of Life Inc. — a Conversation With Author
Douglas Rushkoff
BloggingHeads.tv
Ann Althouse and Douglas Rushkoff
Global Comment
Life, Inc.: an interview with Douglas Rushkoff
2005
Jewcy
The Jewcy Interview
Kris Krug Dot Com
First Interview about Get Back in the Box
New Zionist
New Zionist Interview
The Raw Story
The RAWstory Interview
2004
Comic Book Resources
Douglas Rushkoff Talks Club Zero-G and Breaking into Comics
(Archive)
Douglas Rushkoff on Club Zero-G
Pop Image
Pop Image Interview on Club Zero-G
Jive Magazine
I'm No Authority: Ten Questions with Altculture Spokesman
Douglas Rushkoff
Madghoul
Madghoul Interview
2003
Lifestyles Magazine
Can We Talk?
AlterNet
Is Judaism Becoming Irrelevant?
2001
The Copydesk
200 Words with Douglas Rushkoff
F2
Leaving the twentieth century
Shift
Open-Source Everything
Independent
Douglas Rushkoff: Real virtue against virtual reality
Julian's Lounge
Interview with Douglas Rushkoff
2000
Jewish Public Forum
The CLAL Interview
Feed
Pulling Society's Strings: Douglas Rushkoff and Andrew
Shapiro
1999
Edge
THE THING THAT I CALL DOUG — A Talk with Douglas Rushkoff
Front Wheel Drive
Media Assassin
Austin Chronicle
Why We Listen to What They Say
1998
RiotGrrl
Breakfast with Rushkoff
Creatures
Douglas Rushkoff Interviewed by Francis Leach
1997
Spike Magazine
Lost In Translation
Wisconsin State Journal
Author Makes His Mark; In the Middle
Rewired
The Two Doug Rushkoffs
1996
Real News
Download this book!
Psychedelic Island News
Interview by Psychedelic Island News
Omni
On Youth Culture and the Information Age
1995
Dreamflesh
Dreamflesh Interview
Magical Blend
Generation X: An Interview with Douglas Rushkoff
Undated
The San Francisco Examiner
It's All The Rave
Arkzin
e-mail interview: Douglas Rushkoff
Reviews
2025
Design Fiction Daily
Embracing the Apocalypse (SXSW keynote review)
2024
The Nation
Why Billionaires are Obsessed With the Apocalypse (review of
Survival of the Richest)
2023
Emor Institute
Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
2019
The Washington Post
A manifesto for connecting personally in a tech-dominated
world
2017
LA Review of Books
The Real and Imagined in Douglas Rushkoff's Aleister &
Adolf
Alibi
Review Of Aleister & Adolf
2016
Bleeding Cool
Aleister And Adolf Favorite Graphic Novel 2016
Stir to Action
DIY Approaches To The New Economy
BoingBoing
Aleister Crowley and Adolf Hitler wage occult war in Doug
Rushkoff's latest
The Tyee
Next Economy: Tech Capitalism's Impossible Dream
Dangerous Minds
Rushkoff On His New Graphic Novel, Crowley And Magical
Warfare
Open Democracy UK
Re-writing the core code of business: A Q&A with Douglas
Rushkoff
Circulate
Douglas Rushkoff On Reprogramming Our Economic Operating
System
Seeking Alpha
Review of Throwing Rocks
New Scientist
Can two new books save the internet from its own success?
Read Write Respond
REVIEW: Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
Forbes
Douglas Rushkoff Rocks The Google Bus
Fast Company
Does This Make My Customers Rich? Business Tips For The
Future Steady-State Economy
2013
Fast Company
The Future Isn't A Book, It's A Video Game
The Globe and Mail
Suffering from fractalnoia? There may be no cure
The New York Times
Out of Time: The Sins of Immediacy
2012
Forbes
Douglas Rushkoff's Present Shock: The End Of Time Is Not The
End Of The World
2004
Media Underground
Media Underground Reviews Club Zero-G
2003
American Council for Judaism
Review of Nothing Sacred
Books In Canada
Nothing Sacred: Reviewed By Books In Canada
2002
eBook Reviews Weekly
Douglas Rushkoff's Exit Strategy
2001
Independent
Bull, by Douglas Rushkoff
The Cogitator
Keeping Score with the Digital Elite
2000
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
Playing the Future
1997
The Daily Telegraph
Idealistic but classy
Undated
Jewish Week
An Iconoclast's Next Move
New America Foundation
Our Everything-Now-All-The-Time World
(Tech Presidents)
Our Computers, Ourselves — Living With Present Shock
SF Bay Guardian
Ecstasy Club (review)
Profiles
2025
Fast Company
Douglas Rushkoff Wants Us to Use AI to Ask Better Questions
CUNY News
Tech Elitism's Threat to Democracy and Reforming Ethics in
AI Tech
Rivertowns Dispatch
Rushkoff's Talk Takes Aim at Climate Crisis
2024
Gizmodo
Douglas Rushkoff Knows He Fucked Up
2023
Paris Beacon
Douglas Rushkoff Presents Essential Tips For The Wealthy At
Re:Publica
Clean Technica
Douglas Rushkoff Says Tech Gurus Don't Want You to Know What
They Know
WIRED
Doug Rushkoff Is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution
Walker Art Center
Break the Story and Escape the Container: Douglas Rushkoff
on Content's Promise and Pitfalls
2020
032c
Human After All: Finding the Others
2016
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Douglas Rushkoff Questions Technology
2013
Grist
How'd the present get so tense?
Trip City
Culturepop: Douglas Rushkoff
2012
The Verge
Game or be gamed: Douglas Rushkoff on prototyping democracy
through play
2010
Raw Story
Exclusive: Internet was never free or open and never will
be, media studies prof. says
2009
The Guardian
An old-fashioned kind of geek
2003
B'nai Brith Magazine
Douglas Rushkoff and Open Source Judaism
2002
Newsarama
The Paper Curtain X: The Thought Wars
Forward
The Forward Fifty
2001
Forward
A New Media Refugee Steers His Search Engine Inward
1997
The Washington Times
Gen-X Seer Is Attacked by Alternativist Hysteria
Bay Guardian
Will the real Douglas Rushkoff please stand up?
Undated
Motherboard (Vice)
Douglas Rushkoff in Real Life
Talks
2025
DLD Munich
Enhancing Human Resilience in the Age of AI
SXSW
Weirding the Digital
2024
New School Symposium
We Are as Gods: Deconstructing the Tech Bro Mindset
Social Justice + Media Symposium
From the Movement to the Moment
2023
Voyager, Tokyo
Douglas Rushkoff at Voyager
Re:publica
Survival of the Richest
All Tech is Human
I Will Not Be Autotuned: Crashing Technosolutionism
SXSW
The End of the Billionaire Mindset: A Celebration
2022
Joe's Pub (House of Speakeasy)
Seriously Entertaining
Author Events
Survival of the Richest — Author Event
2019
Virtual Futures Salon
Team Human — with Douglas Rushkoff & George Monbiot
RSA
Team Human
TED
How to be Team Human in the digital future
2018
Nesta
Team Human — Mastering the Digital
2017
Talks at Google
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
2016
SWIFT Innotribe / Sibos
Platform Cooperativism — Innotribe Closing Keynote
OS//OS Conference (NZ)
Talk at New Zealand Open Source Society
PSFK 2016
Throwing Rocks Keynote
The Hammer Museum
The Peril and Promise of the Digital Economy
Big Think
Are Google, Uber, and Digital Companies Trapped by Colonial
Economics?
Big Think
Computer Algorithms Are Killing Jobs and Narrowing Our
Personalities
SXSW Interactive
Distributed: A New OS for the Digital Economy
2014
DLDnyc
Critical Issues Symposium — Opening Keynote
DLDnyc
Present Shock
TIKO Tegenlicht
Rushkoff on TIKO Tegenlicht
Dark Rye
Present Shock
2013
Berkman Klein Center
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
(Vimeo)
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
2012
Seven on Seven
Keynote by Douglas Rushkoff
2010
SXSW
Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
2009
Web 2.0 Expo NY
Radical Abundance: How We Get Past Free and Learn to
Exchange Value Again
Undated
Dis-Info Con
Dis-Info Con
TV / Documentary
2025
Das Erste: TTT (German)
The Dangerous Mindset of Tech Billionaires
2023
CNN — The Lead with Jake Tapper
AI Threat To Jobs
C-SPAN BookTV
In Depth with Douglas Rushkoff
Yahoo Finance
Google's AI is About as Developed as Anyone Else's
Yahoo Money
Regulation is a necessary framework for AI
2016
CNBC Africa
Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus
Global News Canada
The Morning Show: New book takes critical look at how the
digital economy has failed
2015
TechCrunch — Keen On
Keen On with Andrew Keen
C-SPAN BookTV
BookTV: Present Shock with Douglas Rushkoff
CNN
Facebook IPO on CNN
2014
PBS Frontline
Generation Like
2013
The Colbert Report
Present Shock Blows Stephen Colbert's Mind
New York Observer
Rushkoff and the Terror of Modern Time
2012
CNN
Saving the One Percent
PBS Frontline
Digital Nation
Motherboard TV
Motherboard TV: Douglas Rushkoff
2010
Life, Inc.
Life, Inc. The Movie (VTS)
2009
The Colbert Report
Rushkoff on Colbert
Life, Inc.
Life, Inc. The Movie
2004
PBS Frontline
The Persuaders
2003
(Dropbox)
Maybe Logic (Robert Anton Wilson)
2001
PBS Frontline
Merchants of Cool
2000
TV Series
Disinfo Nation
1999
History Television (Canada)
Welcome to Cyberia / Rebels: Journey Underground
1997
The Site (MSNBC)
Rushkoff on The Site MSNBC — Interview with Soledad O'Brien
1995
PBS
Does TV Kill (Part One)
PBS
Does TV Kill (Part Two)
1994
CNN
CNN Interview on CD-ROMs and Hypertext
Undated
(Digital Age)
How Technology is Changing the Stories We Tell
Radio & Podcasts
2025
Hidden Forces
How the Internet Went from Counterculture to Technofeudalism
ChatRog Podcast
Douglas Rushkoff on the wealthy elite's scary plan to
subvert AI for enslavement
The Gray Area
It's Time to Get Weird
Dan Astin Gregory
Why Billionaires are Building Bunkers for the Collapse
Dan Astin Gregory Podcast
Why Billionaires are Building Bunkers for the Collapse
KeenOn
AI as Dumbwaiter 2.0
Talk of the Bay (KSQD)
Douglas Rushkoff blows the lid off tech billionaires
survivalist fantasies
EY New Zealand
Douglas Rushkoff: Why big tech won't save the climate
This Podcast is Ritual
Douglas Rushkoff: How to Play for Team Human
Biophilic Solutions Podcast
Reclaiming Our Humanity with Nature and Collaboration
Mage: The Podcast
Interview with Douglas Rushkoff and Richard Metzger
2024
The Culture Journalist
How to log off, with Douglas Rushkoff
On The Media
How Hank Green Makes The Truth Go Viral — Plus, the Escape
Fantasies of the Uber Rich
Duncan Trussell Family Hour
Douglas Rushkoff (Ep. 645)
Knowing Podcast
Connection: The Human Difference
Radical World Podcast
Open Source Reality
Soul Boom with Rainn Wilson
Revolutionizing Community: Team Human's Blueprint
Machines Like Us (The Globe and Mail)
Douglas Rushkoff doesn't want to talk about AI
Accidental Gods Podcast
How do We Live When Underneath the Surface of Everything is
an Ocean of Tears?
2023
Time Person of the Week
Douglas Rushkoff on How Human Behavior is Training AI
KeenOn / Literary Hub
Douglas Rushkoff on Re-Occupying Reality
Gaslit Nation Podcast
The Douglas Rushkoff Interview Part 1
What Could Possibly Go Right
Tolerating Ambiguity and Choosing Communal Over Isolation
Majority Report with Sam Seder
The Tech Bro Billionaire Ethos That Will Eat Us All
Commonweal Magazine
A Mindset of Misanthropy
SXSW Studio
Rushkoff in 2023 SXSW Studio
The Culture Journalist
Bunker Mars Colony or Seastead?
2022
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
Recalibrate for Human Connection
Modern Wisdom Podcast
How Billionaires are Preparing for Doomsday
Crazy Town Podcast
Tech Bros on Acid
Passion Struck Podcast
Why Billionaires are Building a Secret Plan to Survive the
Event
The Great Simplification (Nate Hagens)
The Ultimate Exit Strategy
Duncan Trussell Family Hour
Douglas Rushkoff
2021
The Knowledge Project Podcast
How Modern Media is Failing Its Mission
Byzantine Dreams Podcast
Fear, Loathing and Dignity in Cyberspace
2020
Rebel Wisdom
Imagined Futures: Douglas Rushkoff and Jamie Wheal
2019
Under the Skin with Russell Brand
The Tribe VS The Algorithm
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Digital Capitalism
2016
The Sustainability Agenda
How the Digital Revolution Undermines Sustainability
Fade to Black
Ep. 549: Jimmy Church with Douglas Rushkoff and Michael
Oeming — Aleister and Adolf LIVE
Radio Motherboard
The Real Impact Of Your Phone
2 Dope Boys and a Podcast
On Point 26 — Douglas Rushkoff: Throwing Rocks at the Google
Bus
On the Block Radio
Episode 40 — Douglas Rushkoff
Radio New Zealand
How To Fix The Digital Economy
Jessica Ann Media
Ep 17: Douglas Rushkoff On The Future Of Humanity
To The Best Of Our Knowledge
How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Follow The Money
How Growth Became The Enemy Of Prosperity
Boing Boing
Amazon is just Walmart on digital drugs: Douglas Rushkoff on
a sustainable economy
92nd Street Y
Rushkoff Dissects the Digital Economy
The Commonwealth Club
Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus — How Growth Became The
Enemy Of Prosperity
The Takeaway (WNYC)
Why People Throw Rocks: A Big Tech Take Down
2015
Bloomberg Media
Bloomberg Media Interview
2013
On Point (WBUR)
Douglas Rushkoff On Present Shock
Joe Rogan Experience
Joe Rogan Experience #346: Douglas Rushkoff
Marketplace
Not planning for the future? Perhaps you are in present
shock
2011
Noble Ape (Tom Barbalet)
Noble Ape with Tom Barbalet — Guest Douglas Rushkoff
1997
Infinity Factory
Ecstasy Club Interview
1996
The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC)
Brian and Douglas Rushkoff, 1996
Undated
City Lights Booksellers
Douglas Rushkoff Live
Tech Emergence
Advocating A More Sustainable Business Culture In An
Automated World
This Week In Startups
How Growth Became The Enemy Of Prosperity
Served as Source
2025
The Independent
Apocalypse now? Why tech billionaires are suddenly hoarding
doomsday mega-bunkers
Mr. Porter
How to Stop Worrying About the End of the World
2024
TruthDig
Team Human vs Post-Human: Which side are you on?
OTAKING Channel (Japanese)
Survival of the Richest video review
2023
CXO Today
Advanced AI and Extinction Risk
Popular Science
Big Tech's latest AI doomsday warning might be more of the
same hype
The Atlantic
It's a Weird Time to Be a Doomsday Prepper
2016
Seeking Alpha
Why Growth As We Know It Is More Illusion Than Reality
The Village Voice
Is New York City Home to a Technopolis? Or a Tech Bubble?