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Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something, they are doing it - whatever the laws we happen to know about might say.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: About Always Assumption Capability Corporations Dawn Doing Government Happen Internet Know Laws Might Operated Say Since Something Technological Whatever

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The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system.

~Douglas Rushkoff

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It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing plan.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Another Become Computer Ever Feels Iphone Just Leverage Macintosh Marketing Operating Other Plan Point Released Since System

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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.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Apple Becoming Capabilities Even Eventually Iphone Laptops Macintosh New Operating Operating System Past Release Running See Styles Surprised System Them Thing Untold

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The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Bunch Cloud Competence Data Decisions Everything Google Just Means Must Our Out Owned Putting Really Someone Something Still Trusted Whose

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Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Also Changed Computers Discovered Enough Even Humans Influence Least Makes Only Predict Think Thinking Way

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Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Always Apparently Before Brain Capacity Early Encouraged Even Exploiting Internet Less Like Made Manipulation More Most Our Simultaneously Than Thought Users Vulnerable Way While

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Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Allow Disorder Even Events Impact Involving Just Repeated Sight Slowly Smell Sound Stress Them Themselves Then Through Virtual

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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.

~Douglas Rushkoff

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Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.

~Douglas Rushkoff

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 18th, 1961

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