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Them Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff
- If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some fundamental things change.…
- Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend…
- The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually,…
- We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off.…
- 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 surprised to see…
- Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist…
- Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling…
- Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other…
- 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…
- 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.
- The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need…
- Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in…
- Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations…
- We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what…
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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