By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't -… — 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 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 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
Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in,… — Douglas Rushkoff 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
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting… — Douglas Rushkoff 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 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
Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a… — Douglas Rushkoff 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 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
'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your… — 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… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for… — Douglas Rushkoff 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 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 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
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
