'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it… — Douglas Rushkoff Accuracy Copy Share Image
Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe… — Douglas Rushkoff Agendas Copy Share Image
As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or… — Douglas Rushkoff Activist Copy Share Image
New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the… — Douglas Rushkoff Connections Copy Share Image
Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“We can screw up our biological clocks a lot easier than that, too. Shift work, where employees alternate between days and nights… — Douglas Rushkoff Biological clock Copy Share Image
In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does… — Douglas Rushkoff Ability Copy Share Image
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone… — Douglas Rushkoff Culture Copy Share Image
Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the… — Douglas Rushkoff Advent Copy Share Image
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward… — Douglas Rushkoff Age Copy Share Image
Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to… — Douglas Rushkoff Anthem Copy Share Image
The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of… — Douglas Rushkoff Ability Copy Share Image
Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly… — Douglas Rushkoff Computer Copy Share Image
The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the… — Douglas Rushkoff Children Copy Share Image
The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products.… — Douglas Rushkoff Abstract Copy Share Image
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting… — Douglas Rushkoff Brain Copy Share Image
As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game… — Douglas Rushkoff Corporate Copy Share Image
Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around… — Douglas Rushkoff Bearing witness Copy Share Image
We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age,… — Douglas Rushkoff Age Copy Share Image
As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out… — Douglas Rushkoff Bloggers Copy Share Image
Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get… — Douglas Rushkoff Clutter Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability… — Douglas Rushkoff Assumption Copy Share Image
Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't… — Douglas Rushkoff Access Copy Share Image
In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a… — Douglas Rushkoff Age Copy Share Image
It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other… — Douglas Rushkoff Computer Copy Share Image
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with… — Douglas Rushkoff Body Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
