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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Mar 2016 · 366pp · 94,209 words

errors threaten to derail not only the innovative capacity of our industries but also the sustainability of our entire society. People throwing rocks at the Google bus will be remembered as the tremor before the quake. Or we may come to our senses and choose a different path. We are at a

Chokepoint Capitalism

by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow · 26 Sep 2022 · 396pp · 113,613 words

it works, and what we can do about it… . An infuriating yet inspiring call to collective action.” —DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus and Survival of the Richest “Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow lay out their case in plain and powerful prose, offering a grand tour of the

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg · 11 Oct 2021 · 521pp · 118,183 words

to sleep. That morning, fortified by several cups of coffee, I left my house in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood and hopped on the Google bus to Mountain View. At around 6:00, I walked into the storied Googleplex, the sprawling campus of low-slung glass-and-brick buildings that make

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy · 12 Apr 2011 · 666pp · 181,495 words

day at Mountain View. He woke up at a Google Apartment, a temporary arrangement while visiting from his home base in Seattle. He caught a Google Bus to the campus, doing a bit of work using the Google Wi-Fi supplied to the passengers, arriving in time for free breakfast at one

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin · 17 Apr 2017 · 222pp · 70,132 words

_Employment. Andrew Gumbel, “San Francisco’s Guerrilla Protest and Google Buses Swells into Revolt,” Guardian, January 25, 2014, www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/25/google-bus-protest-swells-to-revolt-san-francisco. Tom Perkins, “Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?” Letter to the Editor, Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2014, www.wsj.com/news

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff · 7 Sep 2022 · 205pp · 61,903 words

“renewables” : Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller, Greening the Media (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). 49 “the dumbwaiter effect” : Douglas Rushkoff, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity (New York: Penguin Portfolio, 2016), 19. 50 miscarriages, cancers, and shortened lifespan : Producing the Fairphone , directed by Geert

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in Connolly v. Levinas,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 24, no. 5 (2016): 615–38. Also by Douglas Rushkoff Team Human Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age Life, Inc

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

by Joel Kotkin · 11 May 2020 · 393pp · 91,257 words

; David Streitfeld, “Protesters Block Google Buses in San Francisco, Citing ‘Techsploitation,’” New York Times, May 31, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/google-bus-protest.html?emc=edit_ca_20180601&nl=california-today&nlid=8514846720180601&te=1. 60 Alene Tchekmedyian and Joseph Serna, “‘I think it’s arson’: Developer

The New Class Conflict

by Joel Kotkin · 31 Aug 2014 · 362pp · 83,464 words

World Apart,” Observer (UK), May 25, 2013; Avalos, “Silicon Valley Job Growth”; Caille Millner, “Why We’re Invisible to Google Bus Riders,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 26, 2013; Joseph Malchow, “Those Nonsensical ‘Google Bus’ Attacks,” Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2014; Vauhini Vara, “Tech Firms Log On to San Francisco’s Mayoral Race,” Wall

The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

by Jonathan Tepper · 20 Nov 2018 · 417pp · 97,577 words

/20/san-jose-san-francisco-oakland-job-losses-hammer-bay-area-employers-slash-thousands-of-jobs/. 24. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/25/google-bus-protest-swells-to-revolt-san-francisco. 25. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014. Conclusion: Economic

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

by Malcolm Harris · 14 Feb 2023 · 864pp · 272,918 words

Greatest Basketball Teams in History (Atria Books, 2017). Chapter 5.3 Blister in the Sun The PayPal Mafia and the Facebook Keiretsu—Immiseration 2.0—Google Bus—Roko’s Basilisk—Living in the Thielverse It’s difficult to narrativize the latest phase of Silicon Valley history. From at least the time of

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stopped the first bus. With a combination of Black Panther legalism and the anti-globalization movement’s guerrilla theater, Heart of the City boarded the Google bus in fake city vests and issued a fake ordinance from the “San Francisco Displacement and Neighborhood Impact Agency,” which does not exist but probably should

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. The stunt went viral, making national news and encouraging other local groups to adopt the tactic. Google bus blockades brought attention to the bifurcation and conflict that tech wealth was fueling in the Bay Area, but capital’s allies in the local government

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. Doug Gross, “Google Glass Targeted as Symbol by Anti-Tech Crowd,” CNN Business, April 14, 2014. 35. Bryan Goebel, “S.F. Agency Votes to Make ‘Google Bus’ Program Permanent,” KQED, February 22, 2017. 36. Cary McClelland, Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley (New York: W. W. Norton