Covid Speaks like ChatGPT

Douglas Rushkoff
11 min readJan 3, 2024

What I’m Learning from Covid about the Internet and other Synthetic Experiences.

Photo by Josh Riemer on Unsplash

I got Covid this week. Likely on my way back from Japan. US immigration at JFK was a zoo, and I stood in there for nearly an hour packed against other people with supposedly expedited “Global Entry” privileges. Yes, I gave Homeland Security my retinal scans in perpetuity and all I have to show for it is a case of this weird virus.

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Douglas Rushkoff

Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm