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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.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Anti-War Authentic Back Blue Blue Jeans Could Culture Eventually Find Heavy Heavy Metal Jeans Kids Look Mainstream Mainstream Media Mall Market Media Metal Most Out Psychedelic Rap Since Then Things Whether Youth Youth Culture 1960S

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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.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Another Any Decide Everyone Exclusivity Followers Gathering Important Itself Leaders Lost Matter Media More Move Move On Next Niche Nightclub Party People Place Social Social Media Socializing Taking Temporary Them Trend Venue

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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Accelerate Answer Begin Control Only Out Patience Pause Press Sometimes Things Wildly

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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.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Beings Certain Contains Essence Experience Find Go Human Human Beings Human Experience Imitated Interpersonal Let Go Life Machine Myself Paradoxical Quirky Sense Somehow Something Special Still Suspect Too Unable

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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

Topics: Absolute Age Almost Analog Clocks Connection Day Digital Digital Age Duration Hour Industrial Just Know Minute Number Our Portion Some Sun Where Which You

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Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Back Bandit Bit Check Coming Down Email Every Juicy Just Keeps Know Las Vegas Like Little Machine More Once Pop Quarters Reward Roulette Some Three Vegas While You Your

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Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then why have any Facebook friends at all? We're back where we started. The ultimate complexity is just another entropy.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Another Any Anymore Back Complexity Connected Else Entropy Everyone Everything Everything Else Facebook Friend Friends Just Matters Nothing Nothing Matters Once Started Then Ultimate Where Why World Your

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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

Topics: About Act Ads Big Buy Car Change Commit Data Get How Know Likely Marketers Meanwhile Need New New Car Predict Pregnant Profiling Send Sexual Terrorism Us Use Wants Who Whom Nsa

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We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Ask Away Cell Cell Phone Client Close Conversations Enough Even Know Less Likely Lover Make Mind Off Open Other People Phone Phones Prospective Puts Putting Realize Sign Start Table Them Turned Turning You

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People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: About Computers Learned Manipulation More People Reality Seduced Signals Than Them Us World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 18th, 1961

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