Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

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• Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a liability. But the…
• It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in cold,…
• Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.
• Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much our…
• The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
• Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but…
• Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
• The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember…
• If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some fundamental things change.…
• It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
• More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered states of consciousness.…
• Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer…
• In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program, or…
• When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
• A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.
• By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.
• I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
• I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.
• If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
• Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

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