Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or… — 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
Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does… — 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
