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Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy

Douglas Rushkoff (Author)
June 2002
Trade Paperback · 375 Pages
$16.00 U.S. · €11.99 E.U.
ISBN 9781887128902
Soft Skull Press
 

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Description

Douglas Rushkoff's latest salvo on complacent media culture, set in 2008, features Jamie Cohen, a young hacker who, like the biblical Joseph, suffers betrayal and then penance (via the talk-show circuit) before joining forces with a venture capitalist determined to turn everyone into mindless consumers. Meanwhile, Jamie's former pals have developed a way to kill the Web's — and the stock market's — profit-making capacities. A dazzling satire of 1990s dot-com mania, this McLuhanesque cultural critique establishes a new publishing precedent: it is the first open-source ebook, annotated by online readers. This first print edition includes the best of their footnotes chosen by the author.