Along with William Gibson, magazines such as Wired and bloggers everywhere, Douglas Rushkoff has helped shape cyberspace into something more tangible than a mere buzz word. Of his novel The Ecstasy Club, Gibson, the original cyberpunk, said, “A darkly comic contemporary fable: a brave, very funny, very knowing trip through the neo-psychedelic substrate of the wired world.” We caught up with Douglas for a virtual flat white and asked him to tell us what he’s been up to recently, for NZBC’s very first Five Minutes With. “Five minutes? I guess that means fast answers. Lemme try.”