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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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While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Anyone Arduous Been Code College Creating Developed Expensive Free Fun Go Interactive Learning May Once Process Simple Start Surely Text Through While Who Window

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Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does not exist to help us make friends, but to turn our network of connections, brand preferences and activities over time - our 'social graphs' - into money for others.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Activities Been Brand Connections Does Exist Exploits Facebook Friends Help Interactions Make Merely Money Network Never Others Our Over Party Platform Preferences Rather Social Time Turn Us Way

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Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Authentic Been Confound Corporate Culture Done Game He Identified Keep Knows Mall Market Marketers Object Once Own Part Product Shopping Showing Showing Up Target Teen Up

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Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Accountable Against Also Always Been Certain Certain Level Clock Currency Economy Employer Expansion Gave Grow Invention Led Level Made Management Measure Our Over Requirement Standard Time Us Used

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If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Been Body Clock Clockwork Compute Computer Consciousness Digital Human Human Body Human Consciousness Joke Mechanics Memory Need Now Our Processing Things Universe Wiped

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Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Agencies Anything Around Been Demands Discern Even Express Growing Hard Movement Nation News Occupy Participants Protest Why World

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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

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While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps - this has always been part of its greater revenue model: the pennies per placement it gets for seeding the entire Google universe of search and services with ever more targeted advertising.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Advertising Always Apps Away Been Email Entire Ever Everything Gets Given Google Greater Maps Model More Much Offer Part Pennies Per Placement Pretty Revenue Search Services Targeted Universe While

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And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.

~Douglas Sirk

Topics: Attended Been Began Different Einstein His Lectures Now Only Physical Physical World Picture Proven Really Relativity Remained Remains Still Suggested Theory World

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