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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

Topics: Ability About Admit Alternative Bing Convert Does Engine Environment Genuine Google Links More My Own Offer Organized Own Reservations Search Search Engine Selection Sell Space Spite Through Users Which

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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

Topics: Being Better Current Digital Friends Futures Graph Guide History Information Itself Likes Market Moment Narrative Networking Order Our Personal Predict Product Profile Researchers Sense Snapshot Social Sold Succeeded Universe

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Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Clutter Compatible Custom Demands Departments Finally Fuss Get Letting May Microsoft New Remaining Successor Use Users Vista Want While Windows Without Worthy

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'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Email Exist Experience Facebook Incarnation More Multiple Operating Parallel Profile Really Same Same Time Simultaneously Sort Than Time Trying Twitter You Your Yourself

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Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Advertising Apple Applications Become Brand Computers Could Create Daunting Devices Did Even Google Great Great Job Hacking Hardware Job Lifestyle Search Software Then Web

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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.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Another Beyond Big Device Does Hype Ipad Just Keyboard Laptop Really Speculation Style Tablet Truth Truth Is Used Where

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When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Assumed Back Bill Bill Gates Brought Computer Computers Concept Created First Followed Gates He History Jobs Looking Mac Mouse New New Way Operating Operating System Personal Rest Running Saw Steve Steve Jobs Suit System Then Toured Used Way Windows Work Xerox

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We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: About Acquaintances Been Big Building Buy Corporate Data Facebook Friends Government Handing Influence Information Loved Loved Ones Mining Our Ourselves Over Predict Quantities Researchers Them Treasure Users Vast Vote Whom

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Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Always Arrive Digital Environment Finally Forward Happens Human Impact Just Know Leaning Living Millennium Most Other Present Real Real Time Really Response Shock Simply Some Stop Time Ways World You

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Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Card Credit Credit Card Designed Enter Except Information Keep Keyboard Parents People Sites Using Web Web Sites Young Young People

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 18th, 1961

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