We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which… — 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 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
If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that 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 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 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 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
I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of… — Douglas Rushkoff 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 Copy Share Image
This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology. — 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
Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded… — Douglas Rushkoff 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
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
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
