"Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We……" — Douglas Rushkoff
"Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles."
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135 Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff
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Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can…
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It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling…
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Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context,…
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Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere…
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The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
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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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Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
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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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If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for…
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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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More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and…
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Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are…
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More Arousing Quotes
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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought…
— John B. S. Haldane
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May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance…
— Noam Chomsky
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I am honored to even be considered for any list that includes such icons as Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles.…
— Misha Collins
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I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from…
— Seth Roberts
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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself .…
— Aristotle
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In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create…
— John Foster Dulles
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
— Benito Mussolini
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Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind…
— Jack Kornfield
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
— Diana Vreeland
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Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear…
— Maimonides
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The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the…
— Robert McNamara
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