"We Facebook users have been building a treasure……" — Douglas Rushkoff
"We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances."
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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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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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