“And spend they did. Money circulated faster and spread wider through its communities of use than at any other time in economic… — 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
I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion… — 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
Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The moment you frame your own awareness within a second level of self -consciousness is the moment your mind is most up… — 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
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
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot… — 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
The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does… — 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
