All Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
- Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames,… Arousing
- Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the… Any
- Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for… Accurately
- Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And… Big
- Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making… Call
- Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does not exist to… Activities
- Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want… All
- Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur… Algorithms
- Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone… Apple
- For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir… Abundant
- Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing… Advertising
- Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever.… Brands
- Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend.… Anthem
- I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another… Algorithmic
- I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets… Call
- I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in… All
- I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks.… All
- I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable… Beings
- I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian… Academy
- If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere… Adopt