Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To… — Douglas Rushkoff Adoration 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… — Douglas Rushkoff Autonomy Copy Share Image
No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the… — Douglas Rushkoff Autonomous Copy Share Image
We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every… — Douglas Rushkoff Attention 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
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a… — Douglas Rushkoff Advertising Copy Share Image
It's easy to make fun of AOL's pending purchase of HuffPo. Just like AOL's purchase of TimeWarner, here we have a new… — Douglas Rushkoff Business Copy Share Image
Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“We were taking out mortgages we couldn’t afford because they were camouflaged to look as if we had a reasonable chance of… — Douglas Rushkoff Customer Copy Share Image
Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if… — Douglas Rushkoff Cell phone Copy Share Image
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way… — Douglas Rushkoff Book 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
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your… — Douglas Rushkoff Airport security 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
Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while,… — Douglas Rushkoff Attitude Copy Share Image
The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and… — Douglas Rushkoff Advantage Copy Share Image
Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads.… — 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 Business 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 Blogs Copy Share Image
“If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the… — Douglas Rushkoff Creative act Copy Share Image
“Home ownership,and the vast consumption of materials and energy it requires, forces some pretty exploitative foreign policy manoeuvres. This makes people in… — Douglas Rushkoff Foreign policy Copy Share Image
Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to… — Douglas Rushkoff Drug 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 Before and after Copy Share Image
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how… — Douglas Rushkoff Choices Copy Share Image
The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a… — Douglas Rushkoff Age 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 Binary Copy Share Image
If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've… — Douglas Rushkoff Computer Copy Share Image
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to… — Douglas Rushkoff Bad writing Copy Share Image
For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much… — 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 Complexity 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
I understand Windows as well as most technical-support personnel. I can edit a config.sys file and delete bad lines in an autoexec.bat… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
To buy an Apple product is to bet on the longevity of the closed system to which we've committed ourselves. And that… — 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 Body Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in,… — Douglas Rushkoff Ability Copy Share Image
