Douglas Rushkoff, the writer and media theorist who chronicled the countercultural spirit of early ’90s online culture in books like Cyberia, hopes AI can help recapture that era’s sense of possibility.

“I feel like there’s another opportunity to kind of stop using technology on people, and for people to start using technology to realize new visions,” says Rushkoff.

He recently joined the AI consulting startup Andus Labs, where he serves as a kind of scholar-in-residence. He’s also helping produce an upcoming Andus event called After Now, which will take place on July 23 and allow both online and in-person audiences in Manhattan to share thoughts on how AI will shape the future. Speakers include musician Brian Eno, The Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson, MIT scientist Nataliya Kos’myna, and investors Esther Dyson and Albert Wenger.

Thompson will speak on AI’s impact on the media and information ecosystem. Eno, who has long worked with pre-LLM generative technologies to create music and art, will join Rushkoff in a conversation about “emergence, uncertainty, and the creative power of letting go.”

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