| Author | : Douglas Rushkoff |
| Publisher | : Disinformation Company |
| Total Pages | : 139 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780972952934 |
When Zeke, an unpopular young college student, discovers a new club, he learns that reality at the club is a psychic field created by Zero-G children and that he has become a pawn in a conspiracy of the militaries of the present and future to destroy the Zero-G kids. Original. 10,000 first printing.
| Author | : The Explorers Club |
| Publisher | : Ten Speed Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2023-11-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1984859994 |
Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this gorgeously illustrated guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world's most prominent explorers. The discovery of the North and South Poles. The summiting of Everest. The moon landing. The (largely unknown) birth of climate change science. These are just some of the stories from The Explorers Club, the organization that, since its inception in 1904, has pushed the envelope of human curiosity. This guided tour of The Club’s most riveting journeys includes hundreds of photos and fascinating anecdotes about The Club’s distinguished members, including Teddy Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong, and Jane Goodall. From the darkest depths of the ocean to the highest points on Earth and to outer space and beyond, this book shares not just the inspirational history of modern exploration, but also reveals how it has evolved and continues to be relevant—even urgent—today.
| Author | : Ernest Cline |
| Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2011-08-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 030788743X |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. “Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Village Voice • Chicago Sun-Times • iO9 • The AV Club “Delightful . . . the grown-up’s Harry Potter.”—HuffPost “An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.”—CNN “A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.”—Boston Globe “Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.”—NPR “[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.”—iO9
| Author | : Douglas Rushkoff |
| Publisher | : Dark Horse Comics |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2021-02-02 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1506722067 |
Media theorist and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff weaves a mind-bending tale of iconography and mysticism against the backdrop of a battle-torn Europe. In a story spanning generations, and featuring some of the most notable and notorious idealists of the 20th century, legendary occultist Aleister Crowley develops a powerful and dangerous new weapon to defend the world against Adolf Hitler's own war machine spawning an unconventional new form of warfare that is fought not with steel, but with symbols and ideas. Unfortunately, these intangible arsenals are much more insidious and perhaps much more dangerous than their creators could have ever conceived. "Rushkoff is a cultural treasure and an eccentric author of big, strange ideas, never less than fascinating and always entertaining." -Warren Ellis, author of Gun Machine, Red, Trees, and Transmetropolitan "Douglas has been one of my personal heroes, and I've been a most attentive reader of anything he cares to put between covers, knowing that his combination of a cold eye and a warm heart is guaranteed to astonish and embolden my own thinking about what's possible in the world--about what's possible to enact in the space between one human being and another. He occupies the ground of our most immediate perplexities, and his reports of what he finds are breaking news." -Jonathan Lethem, author of The Best American Comics and The Fortress of Solitude
| Author | : Mark Brooks |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0981118100 |
| Author | : Douglas Rushkoff |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2022-09-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0393881075 |
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Event: the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley–style certainty that they can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own making—as long as they have enough money and the right technology. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, and the Metaverse. This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend the landscape The Mindset created—a world alive with algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies—and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human interdependency. Instead of changing the people, he argues, we can change the program.
| Author | : Kevin Smokler |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2009-04-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 078673874X |
An anthology of original essays from our most intriguing young writers, Bookmark Now boldly addresses the significance of the production of literature in the twenty-first century. Or simply, "How do we talk about writing and reading in an age where they both seem almost quaint?"The book features authors in their twenties and thirties -- those raised when TV, video games, and then the Internet supplanted books as dominant cultural mediums -- and their intent is to examine: (1) how this generation came to writing as a calling, (2) what they see as literature's relevance when media consumption and competition have reached unprecedented levels, and (3) how writing and reading fit in with the rest of our rapid, multitasking world. The result will offer a voyeuristic peek into the private, creative lives of today's writers and shed light on what their work means at a time when the book business is changing, yet -- almost paradoxically -- a time when storytelling as a means of both self-realization and community building (be it via e-mail, weblogs, or "This American Life") seems more relevant than ever before. Edited by Kevin Smokler, a Bay Area entrepreneur who has devoted himself to fostering literary culture and cultivating fresh talent, Bookmark Now is a collection that both captures the state of the art and provides inspiration to aspiring writers at all levels.
| Author | : John Brophy |
| Publisher | : John Brophy |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2017-04-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0998964212 |
This is a realistic science fiction adventure set at the beginning of the space tourism boom. Desperate to escape her violent husband, twenty-year-old Tesla Miller kidnaps her infant son and takes him with her to the Sky City Resort and Casino where she believes they can safely hide. Located six hundred miles above the surface of the Earth, Sky City is the newest and largest space resort designed to provide tourists access to the one thing, the only thing, you can’t get on Earth—the absence of gravity. Experience life in zero-gravity with the beautiful Tesla Miller as she and her son learn to adapt to their home in low-Earth orbit. Tesla’s life is complicated by the job she took in desperation to escape her husband, her introduction to the architect of the Sky City resort, and her increasing concern over the long-term effects that growing up in zero-gravity will have on her son. After living in space longer than anyone in history, Tesla discovers two facts about life in zero-gravity that change the course of history and make her famous. What did she discover, and why is her life and the lives of everyone she cares about now in danger?
| Author | : Daniel Pinchbeck |
| Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2011-09-27 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1583943501 |
Most people believe that money is organic and inevitable; we forget that money is just a tool created to perform certain functions. But just as computer programmers drop out-of date tools and pick up better ones as soon as they become available, we might switch from bank-financed currency to a more equitable method for transferring goods and services. As an operating system for society, money needs a major upgrade. What Comes After Money? offers a wealth of alternatives to the current monetary system. In this anthology of essays drawn from the popular web magazine Reality Sandwich, 20 visionary thinkers explore the roots of the modern economic crisis and propose diverse solutions: instituting local currencies; creating reputation or gift economies (based on historical and contemporary); introducing spirituality into the equation; and many more. Contributors include economist Bernard Leitaer, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, musician Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky), theoretical physicist Amit Goswami, Larry Harvey (founder of Burning Man), and Peter Lamborn Wilson (a.k.a. Hakim Bey). About the Imprint: EVOLVER EDITIONS promotes a new counterculture that recognizes humanity's visionary potential and takes tangible, pragmatic steps to realize it. EVOLVER EDITIONS explores the dynamics of personal, collective, and global change from a wide range of perspectives. EVOLVER EDITIONS is an imprint of North Atlantic Books and is produced in collaboration with Evolver, LLC.
