Technology Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.

— Douglas Rushkoff

“digital media are biased away from the local, and toward dislocation.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

— 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

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

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

— Douglas Rushkoff

Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced…

— 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

Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA,…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded…

— Douglas Rushkoff

We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if…

— 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

One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots…

— Douglas Rushkoff

While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding…

— Douglas Rushkoff

No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which…

— 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

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

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

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

When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

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

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

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

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted.…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability…

— Douglas Rushkoff

It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other…

— 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

Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in,…

— Douglas Rushkoff

In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward…

— 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

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