"When things begin accelerating wildly out of control,……" — Douglas Rushkoff
"When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause."
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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 Accelerate Quotes
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The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive…
— Gerry Adams
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Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet…
— Nolan Bushnell
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This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries,…
— Margaret Chan
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Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars…
— Jeff Sessions
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The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate…
— Al Gore
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If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than…
— Rajiv Shah
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Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind…
— Joel Osteen
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In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that…
— Paul Polman
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So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the…
— Thomas Dolby
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Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because…
— Nicolas Roeg
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Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive…
— John F. Kennedy
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