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Which Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff
- The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized to each individual…
- 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…
- Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want…
- In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine…
- In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know,…
- 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…
- Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our…
- 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 true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product.…
- To buy an Apple product is to bet on the longevity of the closed system to which we've committed ourselves. And that system is embodied…
- While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it…
- 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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