Team Human

Douglas Rushkoff's manifesto, set out in one hundred short statements, holds that humans are essentially social creatures who reach their greatest aims by working together rather than as individuals. He argues that a vast antihuman infrastructure now undermines the ability to connect: the internet has split people into ever more atomized and radicalized groups, schooling meant to lift workers has become another assembly line, and money has turned from a means of exchange into one of exploitation. Drawing on research in human evolution, biology and psychology, Rushkoff contends that cooperation yields more happiness, productivity and peace, and that being human is a team sport. Porchlight chose it as its book of the year for management and workplace culture.

Seth Godin praised Rushkoff as a vivid, insightful thinker and an acerbic counter to Facebook, to cultural hegemony and to the corporatizing of everything.