"Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because……" — Douglas Rushkoff
"Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off."
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135 Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff
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Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us…
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The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our…
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It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
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