“digital media are biased away from the local, and toward dislocation.” — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.” — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't -… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
“And spend they did. Money circulated faster and spread wider through its communities of use than at any other time in economic history.8 Workers… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots suffer more… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
“Limbic consonance is the little-known process through which the mood of a room changes when a happy or nervous person walks in.” — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
