Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
