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Than Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff
- 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…
- 'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's…
- I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks.…
- Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of…
- Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of…
- Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for…
- People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.
- Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was…
- The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because…
- Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward…
- Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your…
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes