Playing the Future: What We Can Learn from Digital Kids

by Douglas Rushkoff

Arguing that media-saturated children have learned the necessary skills to survive and prosper in our digital age, the author uses everything from chaos theory, to Rodney King, to Star Wars to demonstrate that kids hold the key to the future. Reprint.

Genres: Nonfiction, Technology

278 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Douglas Rushkoff is a New York-based writer, columnist and lecturer on technology, media and popular culture.

Reviews

[Gary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Subtitled "How Kids' Culture Can Teach Us to Thrive in an Age of Chaos" Rushkoff discusses the relationship of skateboarding to chaos theory. I'm only on p. 35, and the chapter title is The Fall of Linear Thinking and the Rise of Chaos. This is one of those books that jumped off a table at a book warehouse. I'm an educator trying to make sense out of public school education in the digital age, so hopefully I will offer a more enlightening review when I finish the book.

[Trey Lane · Rating 4 out of 5]

"edutainment" done right. i would read Anything by Rushkoff.

[Andi Boediman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Douglas Rushkoff is a media futurist. This book has a good thesis but it is written for thinker, not most people.