{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"TKC 401 Author Douglas Rushkoff","description":"Author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity\r\n&amp;nbsp;\r\nInterview starts at 28:24 and ends at&amp;nbsp;42:21\r\n&amp;nbsp;\r\nThe people who are throwing rocks at the Google bus, they&amp;rsquo;re on to something. The understand something. We should listen. And we can reconfigure, we can optimize, reprogram our economy to help everybody&amp;mdash;That&amp;rsquo;s extremely optimistic. I put myself on the hopeful side of the equation right now.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\nIntro\r\nElon Musk unveils Tesla Model 3 (YouTube) - March 31, 2016\r\n&amp;nbsp;\r\nNews\r\n\r\n&amp;ldquo;Amazon Takes on PayPal with New Payments Program&amp;rdquo; at Fortune - April 4, 2016\r\n\r\n&amp;ldquo;Was Horace and Pete&amp;rdquo; even Television?&amp;rdquo; by Ian Crouch at The New Yorker - April 6, 2016\r\n&amp;ldquo;The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets&amp;rdquo; by Elizabeth Dwoskin at The Washington Post - April 7, 2016\r\n&amp;ldquo;The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming&amp;rdquo; by Eugene Kim at Business Insider - April 2, 2016\r\n&amp;nbsp;Jeff Bezos&amp;rsquo;s 2015 Letter to Shareholders (PDF)\r\n&amp;ldquo;Kids Are Practicing Their Reading Skills to Soothe Shy Shelter Dogs&amp;rdquo; by Anna Gragert at My Modern Met - February 24, 2016\r\n&amp;nbsp;\r\nInterview with Douglas Rushkoff&amp;nbsp;at South By Southwest\r\nThrowing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity\r\nRushkoff at The Commonwealth Club\r\n&amp;nbsp;\r\nContent\r\nHorace and Pete 10 episodes by Louis C.K., available for purchase\r\nSummer Doorways: A Memoir by W. S. Merwin\r\n&amp;ldquo;Alexa, Good Morning!&amp;rdquo; (Try it yourself.)\r\n\r\n&amp;nbsp;\r\nMusic for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named &quot;Well, You Needn't.&quot; This version is &quot;Ra-Monk&quot; by Eval Manigat on the&amp;nbsp;&quot;Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive&quot; CD by Public Transit Recording&quot;&amp;nbsp;CD.&amp;nbsp;\r\n&amp;nbsp;\r\nPlease Join the&amp;nbsp;Kindle Chronicles group&amp;nbsp;at Goodreads!","author_name":"The Kindle Chronicles","author_url":"https:\/\/thekindlechronicles.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4282342\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/4282342"}