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
The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to… — 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
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we… — 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… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and… — 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
