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How to be "Team Human" in the digital future

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Douglas Rushkoff |

TED Salon: Samsung

• September 2018

Humans are no longer valued for our creativity, says media theorist Douglas Rushkoff -- in a world dominated by digital technology, we're now just valued for our data. In a passionate talk, Rushkoff urges us to stop using technology to optimize people for the market and start using it to build a future centered on our pre-digital values of connection, creativity and respect. "Join 'Team Human.' Find the others," he says. "Together let's make the future that we always wanted."

Humans are no longer valued for our creativity, says media theorist Douglas Rushkoff -- in a world dominated by digital technology, we're now just valued for our data. In a passionate talk, Rushkoff urges us to stop using technology to optimize people for the market and start using it to build a future centered on our pre-digital values of connection, creativity and respect. "Join 'Team Human.' Find the others," he says. "Together let's make the future that we always wanted."

This talk was presented at a TED Salon event given in partnership with Samsung. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Read more about TED Salons.

Listen to the Team Human podcast. Each week, we engage in real-time, no-holds-barred discussions with people who are hacking the machine to make it more compatible with human life, and helping redefine what it means to stay human in a digital age.

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Douglas Rushkoff

Media theorist, author

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This talk was presented at a TED Salon event given in partnership with Samsung. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Read more about TED Salons.

Listen to the Team Human podcast. Each week, we engage in real-time, no-holds-barred discussions with people who are hacking the machine to make it more compatible with human life, and helping redefine what it means to stay human in a digital age.

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