Douglas Rushkoff

The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“And spend they did. Money circulated faster and spread wider through its communities of use than at any other time in economic…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers,…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer,…

— Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

— Douglas Rushkoff

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

“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

Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to…

— Douglas Rushkoff

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

— Douglas Rushkoff

Our eyeball hours are scarce, indeed. That's why Google wants us to do as much as possible online, in range of their…

— 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

We each create a story - a narritive, a picture, an allegory, a model - for what's going on in the universe.…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't…

— Douglas Rushkoff

We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“We can screw up our biological clocks a lot easier than that, too. Shift work, where employees alternate between days and nights…

— Douglas Rushkoff

It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads.…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players.…

— Douglas Rushkoff

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

— Douglas Rushkoff