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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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Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Actually Believe Big Even Evening Imagine Know Like Matter Might News Primarily Saying Stories Stuff Think Those Would You

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As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: About Agencies Big Calls Colleague Data Digital Digital Technology Former Government Had Intelligence Intelligence Agencies Me More Our Student Technology Tell Than Through Used Which Writer Written E-Mails

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Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Being Big Cell Cell Phones Computers Corporate Data Everyone Everything Facebook Free Gifts Know Knows Most Our Pay Phones Recorded Say Should Think Throughout Type Why You

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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

Topics: About Apple Big Computer Contrary Ipad Iphone Like More Most Operating Operating System People Running System Tablet Thought Very Way

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The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Big Clean Design Does Expensive Great Industrial Interface Ipod Killer Less Making May Model Music New Offer Radio Users

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I remember taking photographs as the local Gauleiter, Albert Forster, harangued huge crowds of Germans in the evenings with a big swastika flag in the background.

~Douglas Slocombe

Topics: Albert Background Big Crowds Evenings Flag Germans Huge Local Photographs Remember Taking I Remember

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There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Big Border Granite Lot Rock Serious Toward Up Walls Weather Wet

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I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

~Douglas Trumbull

Topics: Believe Big Brainstorm Honestly Leap Like Much Next Technology Very Will

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Peter Jackson is a real big hero of mine because he had the nerve to make 'The Hobbit' at 48 frames per second.

~Douglas Trumbull

Topics: Because Big Frames Had He Hero Hobbit Jackson Make Mine Nerve Per Peter Peter Jackson Real Second

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