Douglas Rushkoff's blog

The history of religion in the US from Puritanism to the present mirrors the evolution of capitalism. What we think of as "spirituality" today is not a departure from the narcissistic culture of consumption, but its truest expression. (more)

We are watching a financial meltdown, but what's dying is not business itself, but a financial parasite. The future actually looks brighter unencumbered by an investment industry that is a drag on business. (more)

A video of the opening "invocation" I did for the Personal Democracy Forum last week, and a preview of some of the concepts coming in my next book, Corporatized. (more)

Nothing against Barak Obama, but we'd be mistaken to consider his politics a complete break from the past, a renaissance in participatory government, or the realization of an Internet-enabled "open source" democracy. (more)