Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames. — Douglas Rushkoff Fantasy Copy Share Image
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us, — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years. — Douglas Rushkoff Climate 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
Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized… — Douglas Rushkoff Children 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
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So… — Douglas Rushkoff Age Copy Share Image
No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can… — Douglas Rushkoff Computers Copy Share Image
Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The moment you frame your own awareness within a second level of self -consciousness is the moment your mind is most up… — Douglas Rushkoff Awareness Copy Share Image
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and… — 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 Digital Copy Share Image
The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep… — 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 Acquaintance Copy Share Image
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague. — Douglas Rushkoff Collapse Copy Share Image
Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Wal-Mart’s relationship to place has become so abstracted that the company views even its own stores through the conquistador’s eyeglass. Like temporary… — Douglas Rushkoff Business Copy Share Image
While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps -… — Douglas Rushkoff Advertising Copy Share Image
Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded… — Douglas Rushkoff Apples Copy Share Image
“Our current economic crises stem, at least in part, from our inability to recognize the storage bias of the money we use.… — Douglas Rushkoff Economics Copy Share Image
“And to whom were these bundles of unrecognizably mashed-up mortgages ultimately sold? Quite often, to you and me. Our pension funds, municipalities,… — Douglas Rushkoff Customer Copy Share Image
Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster,… — Douglas Rushkoff Computer Copy Share Image
“Goldman Sachs and other investment banks understood the ensuing problem so well that they began betting against the very mortgage-backed securities they… — Douglas Rushkoff Customer Copy Share Image
Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact… — 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 Class Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
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