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Douglas Rushkoff is a “presentist,” not a futurist. Rushkoff explains in the video that it means that he no longer is concerned with the future, because the future is merely a construct of a certain, linear way of viewing time. He argues, that the model in his book Present Shock, is no longer operable in a digital age when everything–emails, tweets, TV shows, finance–happens instantly.
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