Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster,… — 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
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
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
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
Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players.… — 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
Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share
