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Firsts Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff
- If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
- It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.
- Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend.…
- I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in…
- 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…
- When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices…
- When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking…
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