Douglas Rushkoff: How to be "Team Human" in the digital future
道格拉斯·拉許柯夫: 任何在數位未來時代成為「人類戰隊」的一員
Douglas Rushkoff promotes human autonomy in the digital age. Full bio
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a couple of hundred tech executives.
waiting to go on,
綠色房間中,等後演講的開始,
they brought five men into the green room
with these really binary questions,
taking bets or what.
their real question of concern.
他們真正在意的問題。
要選阿拉斯加或紐西蘭?
were asking a media theorist for advice
向一位媒體理論家詢求建議,
地下碉堡要建在哪裡。
on the single question:
我們只討論這一個問題:
of my security staff
the thermonuclear war
that ends the world as we know it,
這類會毀滅我們世界的事件,
makes their money obsolete.
他們的錢就毫無用處了。
most powerful men in the world,
最富有、最有權勢的人,
powerless to influence the future.
對末日來臨束手無策。
for the inevitable catastrophe
to get away from the rest of us.
來遠離我們這些等閒之輩。
of the digital economy.
竟是這樣的嘴臉。
from chaos math and quantum physics
從渾沌數學和量子物理,
and the Gaia hypothesis, right?
以及蓋亞假說,對吧?
could create any future we could imagine.
became stock futures.
of the digital age
NASDAQ stock exchange.
那斯達克證券交易所注入強心針。
a tsunami was coming.
the best scenario-planners and futurists
和未來主義者的投資人
we create together in the present
創造出來的這波浪潮
winner-takes-all competition.
about the future,
for our creativity.
擁有創造力而受到重視。
to make predictions.
that creates noise.
就只是一個數位藍圖,
repressed novelty,
成為人類的、最根本的東西。
有趣的方式將人類聯繫在一起嗎?
in new, interesting ways?
to predict our future behavior.
來預測我們的未來行為。
to influence our future behavior
影響我們未來的行為,
with our statistical profiles.
更符合他們的統計輪廓。
does it like people?
what are you supposed to do?
你該怎麼做?
他們想要錢,他們想要意義。
they want money, they want meaning.
form any rapport or solidarity.
任何密切關係或團結。
on the ride hailing app
能讓司機彼此交談,
about their working conditions
或組織工會吧?
to establish real rapport.
建立起真正的密切關係。
are opening to really take you in.
是否有打開,真正的關心你。
to establish rapport
of thousands of years of evolution,
對方的呼吸是否與你同步。
is syncing up with yours.
the oxytocin never goes through your body,
體內也不會有讓人變得親密的催產素,
of bonding with the other human being.
同舟共濟的那種經歷。
but did they really,
但他們真的懂我嗎?」
for that lack of fidelity.
造成交流失真的科技。
and the digital initiatives that we have
科技和主動式數位服務,
也是非常反人類的。
have a great humanized economy? No.
有很棒的人性化經濟嗎?不!
trust between users,
substitutes for trust in a new,
取代了用戶間的信任,
we love education,
to get jobs in the digital future,
能在數位未來找到工作,
about getting jobs?
變成是要找工作?
for a job well done.
who would work in the coal mines all day,
and they should have the dignity
能為自己讀本小說
and understand it.
to participate in democracy.
what are we really doing?
工作的延伸,這是在幹什麼?
of training their workers.
is the humane technology movement.
the former guys who used to take
Las Vegas slot machines
吃角子老虎機的演算法
so that we get addicted.
好讓我們上癮。
他們的方式錯了,
technology more humane.
"humane technology,"
「人道科技」這個說法時,
chickens or something.
as possible to them,
technologies be as humane as possible,
盡可能人道一點,
and extract enough money from us
提取足夠的數據和金錢
for their part, they're just thinking,
他們只是在想:
來賺取足夠的錢,
so I can insulate myself
by earning money in this way."
數位世界隔離開來。」
they slap on their faces
多少副虛擬實境眼鏡,
and pollution that was caused
of the very device.
Thomas Jefferson's dumbwaiter.
that he made the dumbwaiter
all that labor of carrying the food
供人享用的所有勞動。
for the people to eat.
it wasn't for the slaves,
那不是為了奴隸們,
和他的晚餐賓客,
and his dinner guests,
奴隸把食物送上桌。
bringing the food up.
of a "Start Trek" replicator.
複製機生產出來的。
and technology is the solution.
科技才是解決方案。
to optimize human beings for the market
而使用科技來優化人類,
for the human future.
to make these days,
of an environmentalist just the other day,
面前談到這件事,
為人類辯護?人類摧毀了地球。
defending humans?
They deserve to go extinct."
are better and nicer than people.
機器人比人類好、比人類優秀。
what is every zombie show about?
殭屍節目的內容是什麼?
at some zombie going by,
and you see the person's face,
你可以看到那個人的臉,
between that zombie and me?
至少你還能意識到這一點。
distinguishing ourselves from zombies,
和殭屍的能力都沒有,
on the transhumanists.
那會沒完沒了。
and he's going on about the singularity.
超人類主義者是這樣談論「奇點」:
when computers are smarter than people.
那一天很快就會到來了。
for people at that point
to our successor
交給我們的繼任者,
your consciousness to a silicon chip.
上傳到一片矽晶片中。
we understand paradox,
we're weird, we're quirky.
我們很怪咖,也很古靈精怪。
in the digital future."
人類的容身之處。」
你會那麼說,是因為你是人類。」
because you're a human."
of the digital age.
也並非全都相互競爭,
with each other,
根系及菌類緊密連接著,
network of roots and mushrooms
and pass nutrients back and forth.
are the most evolved species,
ways of collaborating and communicating.
合作與溝通方式。
who talked about the digital future
都是在談數位未來,
experienced anything digital.
before digital technology.
之前的生活的人。
or rejecting the technological.
that we're in danger of leaving behind
infrastructure for the future.
未來的數位基礎建設中。
to see people as adversaries,
our adversaries as people.
that doesn't favor a platform monopoly
攫取價值的壟斷平台,
out of people and places,
of value through a community
促進價值流通的經濟體,
platform cooperatives
as wide as possible.
and novelty in the name of prediction
我們創意和新鮮奇性,
creativity and novelty,
with some of the solutions
out of the mess that we're in.
現在的困境中解救出來。
enough money to insulate ourselves
making the world a place
放在把世界變成
the need to escape from.
there is only one thing going on here.
只有一件事情會發生。
at least you won't be alone.
至少你都不孤單。
that we always wanted.
who wanted to know
security force after the apocalypse,
如何繼續控制他們的安全人員,
with love and respect right now.
用愛和尊重來對待平常人。
an apocalypse to worry about."
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Douglas Rushkoff - Media theorist, authorDouglas Rushkoff promotes human autonomy in the digital age.
Why you should listen
Douglas Rushkoff coined such expressions as "viral media," "digital natives" and "social currency," and advises governments, communities and businesses on the impact of technology on society's future. Named one of "the world’s ten most influential thinkers" by MIT, Rushkoff won the Marshal McLuhan Award for media writing and the Neil Postman award for Public Intellectual Activity.
Rushkoff hosts the Team Human podcast, made four PBS Frontline documentaries including Generation Like and The Merchants of Cool, and wrote many bestselling books including Team Human, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed and Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus. He founded the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens College, where he is professor of media theory and digital economics.
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