“digital media are biased away from the local, and toward dislocation.” — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA,… — 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
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
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
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
Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep… — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead… — 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
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
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
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
I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology. — 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
It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other… — 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
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
Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
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
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward… — 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
... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept. — Douglas Rushkoff 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
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
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
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
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
The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly… — 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
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
