"Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as……" — Douglas Rushkoff
"Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present."
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Douglas Rushkoff
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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 Bearing Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
— Saint Basil
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas…
— Gary Becker
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
— Warren Buffett
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Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits…
— Buzz Aldrin
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I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century,…
— Christiane Amanpour
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
— Maya Angelou
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let…
— Yasser Arafat
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More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants.…
— William J. Clinton
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In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is…
— Nabeshima Naoshige
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