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Digital Nation
2010 · Film · documentary · 85 min
Directed by Rachel Dretzin
Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn, and connect in ways that we’re only beginning to understand. FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin (Growing up Online) teams up with one of the leading thinkers of the digital age, Douglas Rushkoff (The Persuaders, Merchants of Cool), to continue to explore life on the virtual frontier. The film is the product of a unique collaboration with visitors to the Digital Nation website, who for the past year have been able to react to the work in progress and post their own stories online.
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Douglas Rushkoff is a writer and filmmaker on media, technology and popular culture, and winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. He teaches media studies at NYU and the New School University and serves as technology columnist for the Daily Beast. His most recent documentary is Digital Nation, and his most recent book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age.
PBS's Digital Nation - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/ also had a segment where they showed how drone pilots operate.
It's surreal how they "drive to work/war" then come home that night. Having said that from the documentary you also get the impression that they do treat it like they are at war.