Rushkoff, Douglas, <br/><br/>
Throwing rocks at the Google bus :  how growth became the enemy of prosperity / 
Douglas Rushkoff 
 - viii, 278 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index 
<br/><br/>Introduction: What's wrong with this picture? -- Removing humans from the equation. Digital industrialism ; Mass mass mass ; The digital marketplace : winner takes all ; The economy of likes ; The big data play ; Sharing economics : getting humans back "on the books" ; The unemployment solution -- The growth trap. Corporations are programs ; The platform monopoly ; Recoding the corporation ; The steady-state enterprise -- The speed of money. Coin of the realm ; Reprogramming money--bank vaults to blockchains ; Money is a verb -- Investing without exiting. Finance ls nothing personal ; Do algorithms dream of digital derivatives? ; Investment gamified : the startup ; Ventureless capital : the patience of crowds ; Fully invested--factors beyond capital -- Distributed. Digital distributism ; Renaissance now? 
<br/><br/> An exploration of the digital economy draws on contemporary and historical sources to argue for a new economic program that utilizes the unique distributive power of the Internet while breaking free of the winner-take-all game-defining business today 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781617230172 1617230170 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Information technology--Economic aspects<br/>Electronic commerce
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC79.I55  / R87 2016 HC79.I55  / R87 2016