All Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
- It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order. Down
- Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets. Assets
- Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information. Card
- Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop… Attitude
- On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your… Class
- Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend… Any
- The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually,… Customer
- The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized to each individual… Children
- We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off.… Ask
- Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to… Adoration
- As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which… Agencies
- As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and… Amateur
- As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found… Activist
- As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be surprised to see… Apple
- As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story -… Becomes
- Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen… Beyond
- Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just… Ability
- 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 capitalist… Awry
- 'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's… All
- 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 to… Biased