When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy… — Douglas Rushkoff Academy Copy Share Image
Our eyeball hours are scarce, indeed. That's why Google wants us to do as much as possible online, in range of their… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products.… — Douglas Rushkoff Abstract Copy Share Image
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting… — Douglas Rushkoff Brain 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
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're living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is. That's because, on a very fundamental level, we… — Douglas Rushkoff America Copy Share Image
Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players.… — Douglas Rushkoff Algorithms Copy Share Image
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do… — Douglas Rushkoff Banking 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
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 Exclusivity Copy Share Image
Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up,… — 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
Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game… — Douglas Rushkoff Corporate Copy Share Image
As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the… — Douglas Rushkoff Children Copy Share Image
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 Bearing witness Copy Share Image
As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out… — Douglas Rushkoff Bloggers Copy Share Image
We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age,… — Douglas Rushkoff Age 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 Age Copy Share Image
It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other… — Douglas Rushkoff Computer Copy Share Image
Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get… — Douglas Rushkoff Clutter Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability… — Douglas Rushkoff Assumption Copy Share Image
Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't… — Douglas Rushkoff Access Copy Share Image
The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and… — 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 Activist Copy Share Image
New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the… — Douglas Rushkoff Connections Copy Share Image
Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of… — Douglas Rushkoff Ability 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 Computer Copy Share Image
The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it… — Douglas Rushkoff Accuracy Copy Share Image
Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with… — Douglas Rushkoff Connections Copy Share Image
