Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in,… — Douglas Rushkoff Ability Copy Share Image
Our eyeball hours are scarce, indeed. That's why Google wants us to do as much as possible online, in range of their… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy… — Douglas Rushkoff Academy Copy Share Image
In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that… — Douglas Rushkoff Access Copy Share Image
Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of… — Douglas Rushkoff America Copy Share Image
Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We each create a story - a narritive, a picture, an allegory, a model - for what's going on in the universe.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a… — Douglas Rushkoff Anonymity Copy Share Image
This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment… — Douglas Rushkoff Ability Copy Share Image
Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players.… — Douglas Rushkoff Algorithms Copy Share Image
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We're living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is. That's because, on a very fundamental level, we… — Douglas Rushkoff America Copy Share Image
I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do… — Douglas Rushkoff Banking Copy Share Image
Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So… — Douglas Rushkoff Exclusivity Copy Share Image
The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
