# Douglas Rushkoff on Being the Intellectual Dominatrix of Billionaire Tech Bros

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Podcast: [The Kicker](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-kicker-1113064)
Published: 2025-11-25T19:00:00+00:00
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In 1992, a writer named Douglas Rushkoff signed a contract for Cyberia, his book about the internet subcultures of the West Coast. The next year, his publisher canceled it, according to Rushkoff’s recollection, on the grounds that “by the time the book came out the Internet was going to be over.” (He later found a different publisher, and the book came out in 1994.) Since then, Rushkoff has been one of the most entertaining and pointed futurists (though he prefers “presentist” these days) chr...

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