Douglas Rushkoff Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Growing Up, Believe, Gay

  "Program or be Programmed: The GeekDad". Interview with Jason Cranfordteague, www.wired.com. July 29, 2011.

• The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Simple, Tv Shows, Understanding

  "Program or be Programmed: The GeekDad". Interview with Jason Cranfordteague, www.wired.com. July 29, 2011.

• Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less...We have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing press by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Kings, Technology, Agency

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