The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague. — Douglas Rushkoff Collapse Copy Share Image
... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames. — Douglas Rushkoff Fantasy Copy Share Image
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us, — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every… — Douglas Rushkoff Attention Copy Share Image
No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the… — Douglas Rushkoff Autonomous Copy Share Image
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a… — Douglas Rushkoff Advertising Copy Share Image
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… — Douglas Rushkoff Business Copy Share Image
Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer… — Douglas Rushkoff Business Copy Share Image
Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs… — Douglas Rushkoff Blogs Copy Share Image
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know,… — Douglas Rushkoff Digital Copy Share Image
The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict… — Douglas Rushkoff Acquaintance Copy Share Image
“We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots… — Douglas Rushkoff Battlefields Copy Share Image
I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own… — Douglas Rushkoff Ability Copy Share Image
Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Step by step, place became property, property became a mortgage, and mortgages became derivative investments.” — Douglas Rushkoff Investing Copy Share Image
Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time. — Douglas Rushkoff Media Copy Share Image
“If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the… — Douglas Rushkoff Creative act Copy Share Image
Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and… — Douglas Rushkoff Advantage Copy Share Image
Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our… — Douglas Rushkoff Binary Copy Share Image
“Home ownership,and the vast consumption of materials and energy it requires, forces some pretty exploitative foreign policy manoeuvres. This makes people in… — Douglas Rushkoff Foreign policy Copy Share Image
Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to… — Douglas Rushkoff Drug Copy Share Image
The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the… — Douglas Rushkoff Before and after Copy Share Image
With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how… — Douglas Rushkoff Choices Copy Share Image
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a… — Douglas Rushkoff Age Copy Share Image
What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can… — Douglas Rushkoff Computers Copy Share Image
Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
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