Douglas Rushkoff Quotes - Page 5

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• 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.

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  Book, Thinking, Poison

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• Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.

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  Technology, People, Looks

  "Cutting social media no answer to flash mobs" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. August 19, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Brain, Neuroplasticity, Computer

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• 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.

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  Ipads, Hype, Pda

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• By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.

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  Google, Needs, Microsoft

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• I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

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  Media, Communist, Theorists

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• If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

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  Twenties, Firsts, Century

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.6, Penguin

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• Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

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  People, Care, Take Care

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• It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.

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  Order, Next, Firsts

  "Facebook hype will fade". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. January 7, 2011.

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• Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.

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  Long, Derivatives, Assets

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.88, Penguin

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• On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.

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  Past, Class, Next

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• 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.

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  Party, Moving, Media

  "Facebook hype will fade" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Apples, Pace, Potters

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• As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.

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  People, Champion, Stories

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• 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.

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  Running, Past, Iphone

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• As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

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  Moving, Playing Games, Role Playing

  "Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos' end works but Lost's doesn't". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2013.

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• I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.

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  Letting Go, Essence, Special

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.162, Penguin

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• I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

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  Art, Vanity, Directors

  "Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos' end works but Lost's doesn't". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Narrative 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 more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the 'ends-justify-the-means' traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values.

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  War, Mean, Escaping

  "Living in the Present Is a Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.

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• New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

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  Technology, Self, Google

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• No 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; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data.

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  Technology, Data, People

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.8, Penguin

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• The '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 experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

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  Real, America, Focus

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.6, Penguin

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• Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.

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  Technology, Space, Suits

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• Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.

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  War, Rap, Kids

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• Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg.

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  Zuckerberg, Cds, Genius

  "Facebook hype will fade" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2011.

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