All Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
- The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need… Advantage
- The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over… Allow
- The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because… All
- The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the… Any
- The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message… Beings
- The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers… Advertiser
- The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were… Age
- The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more… Apple
- The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model… Big
- The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every… Allowed
- The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived… Circular
- The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product.… Countless
- Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward… Bad
- Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a… Accountable
- To buy an Apple product is to bet on the longevity of the closed system to which we've committed ourselves. And that system is embodied… Apple
- Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in… Age
- Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government.… Century
- Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations… Allow
- Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself… Cell
- We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an… All