The real solution to disconnection is to ‘find the others’.
“With fake news, Russian election hacking, and the general meanness of our online world, many know the utopian sheen is off our digital technologies. What many don't know, however, is why things went so wrong — or what our next steps should be.
“Douglas Rushkoff, though, does have a pretty good idea of how information technology and the culture we've built with it went off the rails. He even has a pretty clear idea of how to get things back on track. The answers to both questions lies the title of his new book Team Human.
“…In the last few chapters he offers a vision that is neither anti-technology or techno-utopian. There are many ways to create the future (a word which Rushkoff says should be considered a verb). ‘Human beings can intervene in the machine,’ he tells us. ‘That's not a refusal to accept progress. It's simply a refusal to accept any particular outcome as inevitable.’
“For Rushkoff, it always comes down to finding new ways to use the machines we build to connect and to cooperate. That will mean doing the hard work of finding the humanity in people. In the end, that's really what Rushkoff is asking for in his call for a "Renaissance Now." We must remember that we only survive and thrived when we work as teams — when we work as an ‘us.’”
Book Review: ’Team Human' Stresses That The Future Lies In Connection And Cooperation