Computers Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

Computers don't kill books; people do.

— 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

“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed…

— Douglas Rushkoff

If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

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

I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster,…

— Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

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

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

Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a…

— Douglas Rushkoff