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Technology Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff
- Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much our…
- Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but…
- Digiphreniaâ€â€”the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
- As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which…
- Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames,…
- I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another…
- New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.
- No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products…
- Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No…
- Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more…
- The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over…
- Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system,…
More Technology Quotes
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes… — David Boies
- I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is… — Jeffrey Skoll
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
- Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard
- The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. — John Perry Barlow
- Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. — John Perry Barlow