"Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression.……" — Douglas Rushkoff
"Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature."
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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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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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In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's…
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