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In 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 3:23. It’s almost this absolute duration that doesn’t have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the 70s and 80s. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
The 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. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the iPhone operating system running on them - and the Macintosh eventually becoming a thing of the past. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what’s happening on the free Internet is more akin to the ‘crowdsourcing’ of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
A society that’s addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
In 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 - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
I don’t think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They’re just not really that, yet. There’s all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it’s hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the ‘more’ menu on the Gmail page that they’ve had to go and add a final item called ‘even more.’ (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can’t multitask, and we shouldn’t keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don’t compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and who is about to change sexual orientations. That’s how they know what ads to send to whom. The NSA, meanwhile, wants to know who is likely to commit an act of terrorism - and for this, they need us. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
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. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can’t do better, so be it. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I’ve paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we’ve strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
In 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 more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn’t pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It’s the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
We’ve been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age, it was the end of a golden age. (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
I don’t want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I’m not. But walking down the street, for example, used to be a public activity; you’d see the other people (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
A society that’s addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of agency. I’m as guilty as anybody, and I write about it in a book. I’m not condemning anybody (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)
Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised (Douglas Rushkoff Quotes)