with douglas rushkoff . jim, are you with us? we will try michael in broward county, florida. jim, hang on the line and we will try to get to you. michael, go ahead. we will work on the calls. i think we have julie on the line, minneapolis, minnesota. go ahead. caller: i am here. i am glad to be here. i heard him say a number of things and it fired me up. you are passionate and insightful and have a great many opinions and questions and a lot of ideas which could be discussed by people who agree with you and people who oppose you for achieving progress. you write books, you teach, you appear here, how do you actually get people involved in talking to one another? how do we, because i share some of those characteristics from some of your thoughts -- how do we begin to -- i think at one point you said we had an opportunity to take intro of the digital age and instead we seceded it to business much like our universities have -- how do we retract that and say we want it back, we are capable of doing this? host:

you're on with douglas rushkoff. jim, are you with us? then we'll try michael in broward county, florida. jim, had a he think -- jim, hang onto line, we'll try to get to you. michael, go ahead. we'll work on those calls. let's try one more. i think julie on the line in minneapolis, a lot of calls so we can rotate through if you're not there. >> hi, i'm here and glad to be here. i've heard mr. rushkoff say a number of things and they've fired me up. you, sir, are passionate, you are insightful. you have a great many opinions, you have a great many questions and a lot of ideas which could be molded and discussed by people who agree with you and people who oppose you into actual policies and means of achieving progress. my question is, you write books, you teach, you appear here. how do you actually get people involved and talking to one another? how do we? because i think i share some of those characteristics and some of your thoughts. how do we begin to -- i think at one point you said we had an opportunity to take control of the digital a

you're on with douglas rushkoff. in chatting with chat gpti discovered in trying to get information about our governor desantis, he's doing exactly what desantis is doing and it's semantics it is the fact that the responses that it provides and the program that way is for the same reason as he wants to avoid things that are potentially negative -- say things that are just positive and what i'm talking about if you look into anything having to do with the racism or misogyny. your friends that are rich, tell them abouth success ptsd wheret changes your brain so that you react in the same way to be self-interested, quite reacting, their brains are -- it's interesting because herbert spencer started that in 1860's which is why 30% of the kids can't read and we teach that way even though 100% can't. we verified medically but we teach to the bell curve not to prevent the bell curve. the heir and the rabbit. the state department has done for 50 years they have done randomized tests. we've never had more than 30%. >> michael

thank five minutes left with douglas rushkoff. interested in your robe with research particularly the life, ink. that you talked about. how much do you need to do before you start writing and also your world with agents rethink you very much. >> agents, like literary agents? okay, so life, ink i like to have all the research done before i start writing, writing. i'll do a little bit of research to get to the proposal stage in the proposal is usually something that turns into a version of the introduction to the books of the proposal usuallyy gets me to work inc. academia we would call the research question. so for life, ink it was like where did this corporation come from and how did corporatism become the religion of our society than what the heck can we do about it? i had done enough research to know i was going to look at the charter and figure out what i didn't know when i wrote the proposal that i was going to uncover the nature of the deal between the monarchs and the first charter monopolies and what that wasn't how it work

it it's awesome and thank you so much again jeff >> and now on book tv, live with author douglas rushkoff take your calls and questions through email, text and a social media. his book includes program or be programmed, and 2022's arrival of the riches, about plans tech billionaires are making after earth becomes uninhabitable due to climate change or other catastrophic event. >> you describe yourself in your latest book who writes about digital technology but not a futurist. >>