All Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
- If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of… Been
- If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay… Agendas
- Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the… Actually Believe
- 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 genuine… Ability
- In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current… Better
- In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know,… Absolute
- It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing… Computer
- It's easy to make fun of AOL's pending purchase of HuffPo. Just like AOL's purchase of TimeWarner, here we have a new media company -… Already Peaked
- Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most… Advent
- Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself… Access
- Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling… Bearing
- Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of… Always Thought
- Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available… Addict
- Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of… Abstract
- Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they… All
- Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the… 80s
- Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets,… Accessible
- Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways… Arrive
- Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability… Ability
- New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might… Been