Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Wal-Mart’s relationship to place has become so abstracted that the company views even its own stores through the conquistador’s eyeglass. Like temporary… — Douglas Rushkoff Business Copy Share Image
“Our current economic crises stem, at least in part, from our inability to recognize the storage bias of the money we use.… — Douglas Rushkoff Economics Copy Share Image
“And to whom were these bundles of unrecognizably mashed-up mortgages ultimately sold? Quite often, to you and me. Our pension funds, municipalities,… — Douglas Rushkoff Customer Copy Share Image
Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps -… — Douglas Rushkoff Advertising Copy Share Image
Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded… — Douglas Rushkoff Apples Copy Share Image
Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster,… — Douglas Rushkoff Computer Copy Share Image
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding… — Douglas Rushkoff Code Copy Share Image
The moment you frame your own awareness within a second level of self -consciousness is the moment your mind is most up… — Douglas Rushkoff Awareness Copy Share Image
“Engaged in a new form of serfdom---only bound now to banks and mortgage lenders instead of to lords---her more highly leveraged neighbors… — Douglas Rushkoff Business Copy Share Image
If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a… — Douglas Rushkoff Bacteria Copy Share Image
Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To… — Douglas Rushkoff Adoration Copy Share Image
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple… — Douglas Rushkoff Autonomy Copy Share Image
Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Goldman Sachs and other investment banks understood the ensuing problem so well that they began betting against the very mortgage-backed securities they… — Douglas Rushkoff Customer Copy Share Image
On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a… — Douglas Rushkoff Class Copy Share Image
I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion… — Douglas Rushkoff Behavior Copy Share Image
Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern… — Douglas Rushkoff Cell phone Copy Share Image
The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if… — Douglas Rushkoff Doubt Copy Share Image
Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't -… — Douglas Rushkoff Digital Copy Share Image
Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers,… — Douglas Rushkoff Ability Copy Share Image
When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So… — Douglas Rushkoff Age Copy Share Image
No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which… — Douglas Rushkoff Behavior Copy Share Image
New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete. — Douglas Rushkoff Automobile Copy Share Image
Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized… — Douglas Rushkoff Children Copy Share Image
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with… — Douglas Rushkoff Connections Copy Share Image
Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
