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Time 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…
- Digiphreniaâ€â€”the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
- '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…
- Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to…
- Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the…
- Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does not exist to…
- Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available…
- Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways…
- Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability…
- 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…
- 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 reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every…
- The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived…
- Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a…
- We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an…
- 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…
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