Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff

… we’re moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.

Eras

Moving

Technology

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn’t do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

Investment

Long

Moments

A society that’s addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

Ends

Narrative

Want

Apple enjoys ‘Harry Potter’-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.

Apples

Pace

Potters

Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop’s keyboard used to do.

Hype

Ipads

Pda

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

Book

Soul

Thinking

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the ‘neuroplasticity’ allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.

Brain

Computer

Neuroplasticity

Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they’re essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.

Children

Decision

Marketing

Computers don’t kill books; people do.

Book

Computer

People

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

Agency

Humanity

Thinking

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Air

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Alternatives

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Apples

Assets

Attitude

Believe

Book

Botox

Brain

Cds

Children

Choices

Civilization

Class

Clouds

Communist

Computer

Confusion

Connections

Creative

Culture

Currency

Data

Decision

Derivatives

Design

Digital

Doe

Doubt

Economic

Economy

Emergencies

Ends

Entropy

Eras

Europe

Example

Fall

Fields

Fighting

Firsts

Flow

Focus

Forever

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Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff

… we’re moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn’t do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

A society that’s addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

Apple enjoys ‘Harry Potter’-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.

Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop’s keyboard used to do.

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the ‘neuroplasticity’ allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.

Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they’re essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.

Computers don’t kill books; people do.

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

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