KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Douglas Rushkoff Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

Showing 81-90 of 122 Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Bad Climax Considered Crisis Days Game Game Of Thrones Less Like Might Movie Moving Old Old Days Opera Protagonist Really Seem Show Soap Soap Opera Sort Structured Than Think Toward True Tv Tv Show Writing

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of futurism that envisions augmenting human ability and intellect rather than creating some artificial machine intelligence that displaces us.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Ability Artificial Creating Even Human Intellect Intelligence Kind Machine Positive Rather Society Some Sort Than Think Us I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Both Digital Digital Technology Facebook Just Look Other People Photos Side Technology Twitter Users

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Almost Almost Every Day Came Case Ceo Company Considered Day Every Every Day Former Genius Invincible Less Mail Mark Mark Zuckerberg Remember Remember When Steve Than Those Ubiquitous Aol

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Bring Doubt Easy Even Facebook Friends Migration No Doubt Provide So-Called Successor Through Utility Want Which Will You Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Based Bought Calculations Candidates Choose Come Data Disposal How Just Living Looking Making Marketers Matter Never People Process Products Technologies Terms Thought Through Which

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Addict Attempt Available Beauty Botox Diminishing Less Like Moment More Paralyzed Passage Preserve Returns Seek Stop Time Very

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it connects everything to almost everything else. The hypertext link, as we used to call it, allows any fact or idea to become intimately connected with any other.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Almost Almost Everything Any Become Blame Call Connected Connects Conspiracy Ease Else Everything Everything Else Fact Idea Internet Link May More Much Net Other Really Theories Used Way Which While

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Been Complete Connection Content Friends Getting Information Jane Just Linking Longer Made Might More Networks New New Ways Now Online Other Picture Put Requires Social Social Networks Stories Things Tom Ways You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Call Card Chances Conducting Creates Credit Credit Card Data Digital Enough Everything Exists Making Phone Phone Call Realm Sending Someone Soon Surfing Trail Transaction Using Web Will Yes E-Mail

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 18th, 1961

Links

Find Douglas Rushkoff on Amazon

Related Authors

Dave Barry
Ambrose Bierce
Erma Bombeck
Ann Coulter
Ann Landers
Fran Lebowitz
Mignon Mclaughlin
Hunter S. Thompson

Popular Authors

Saint Augustine Ram Dass Frederick Douglass Bill Gates John Keats Marquis De Lafayette Rihanna Bruce Springsteen

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1770 - William Wordsworth

1648 - John Sheffield

1718 - Hugh Blair

1772 - Charles Fourier

1775 - Francis Cabot Lowell

1780 - William Ellery Channing

1873 - John Mcgraw

1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke

1881 - Daisy Ashford

1889 - Gabriela Mistral

Birthdays on April 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Anger Gardening Humor Intelligence Medical Motivational Teen War