Douglas Rushkoff

“digital media are biased away from the local, and toward dislocation.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

Computers don't kill books; people do.

— Douglas Rushkoff

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

— Douglas Rushkoff

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

— Douglas Rushkoff

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

— Douglas Rushkoff

By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Nothing is sacred. And, more importantly...the 'nothing' you end up with is truly sacred.

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

“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

“Once a line could truly be drawn in something other than sand, the notion of history as a progression became possible.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be…

— Douglas Rushkoff

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

— Douglas Rushkoff

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

— Douglas Rushkoff

I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers,…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which…

— Douglas Rushkoff

New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Engaged in a new form of serfdom---only bound now to banks and mortgage lenders instead of to lords---her more highly leveraged neighbors…

— Douglas Rushkoff

If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some…

— Douglas Rushkoff

It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions.…

— Douglas Rushkoff

I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers,…

— Douglas Rushkoff

While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“And spend they did. Money circulated faster and spread wider through its communities of use than at any other time in economic…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“If you go back and look at the historical record, it turns out that a lot of important ideas have very long…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Scientist Freeman Dyson attempted to clarify this for us when he came up with the concept of temporal diversity. As he came…

— Douglas Rushkoff

I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.

— Douglas Rushkoff

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Step by step, place became property, property became a mortgage, and mortgages became derivative investments.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

— Douglas Rushkoff