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Things 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…
- The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember…
- 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.…
- When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
- I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets…
- If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of…
- New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might…
- Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture,…
- The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I…
- The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because…
- 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…
- With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things.…
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
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