Examines how corporatism has become an intrinsic part of our everyday lives, choices and opinions. This title demonstrates how this system created a world where everything can be commodified, where communities have dissolved into consumer groups, where fiction and reality have become fundamentally b[...]

Noted media pundit and author of "Playing the Future" Douglas Rushkoff gives a devastating critique of the influence techniques behind our culture of rampant consumerism. With a skilled analysis of how experts in the fields of marketing, advertising, retail atmospherics, and hand-selling attempt to [...]

"If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism."
This is the moment we've been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, but we don't seem to have any time in which to live it. Instead we remain poi[...]