Think about those emails you get every minute, the texts constantly vibrating in your pocket, a news cycle that never ends. In his book “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now,” best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff offers up an arresting theory about how living in this brave new world changes us. Part 2 of 2: the economy.
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