Douglas RushkoffThe industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.351Humanity
Douglas RushkoffThe 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real e… ▶373LifeTime
Douglas RushkoffIt feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing plan.373Death
Douglas RushkoffEcstacy 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 offe… ▶373Hope
Douglas RushkoffIn the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself -… ▶364HopeTime
Douglas RushkoffIn spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a m… ▶342Reflection
Douglas RushkoffThe true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers. The countles… ▶321ReadingTruth
Douglas RushkoffIt's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in cold, meaningless space. But ju… ▶366HumanityLifePhilosophy
Douglas RushkoffWhether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging yo… ▶333Life
Douglas RushkoffNo matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; … ▶355HumanityLifeThought
Douglas RushkoffNarrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability to break down narratives - particularly the m… ▶366LifeTime
Douglas RushkoffMost of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, a… ▶322Truth
Douglas RushkoffFantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up c… ▶355Reading
Douglas RushkoffWeb sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information. ✨ Douglas Rushkoff (2006). ScreenAgers: Lesso… ▶322Humanity
Douglas RushkoffMany billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known… ▶301Time
Douglas RushkoffIn the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just … ▶356DeathTime
Douglas RushkoffUnlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we ar… ▶335HumanityLifePolitics
Douglas RushkoffThe reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in … ▶291Time
Douglas RushkoffNew content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now frie… ▶335Time
Douglas RushkoffJobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselve… ▶379Humanity
Douglas RushkoffFiles on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control ove… ▶302HumanityThought
Douglas RushkoffWhat's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the… ▶336ReadingTime
Douglas RushkoffThe iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone ope… ▶3710HumanityThought
Douglas RushkoffLike 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 dark… ▶369Time
Douglas RushkoffInvest in people who will take care of you when you're old.303Humanity
Douglas RushkoffIt may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.337LifePolitics
Douglas RushkoffCorporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.348HumanityThought
Douglas RushkoffThink 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagon… ▶293LifeReflectionThought
Douglas RushkoffSince the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something, they are doing it… ▶348Politics
Douglas RushkoffOnce a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture … ▶348Reflection
