Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers,… — 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
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
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
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
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 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
We're living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is. That's because, on a very fundamental level, we… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about… — 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
The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for… — 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
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
Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the… — 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
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 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
