Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff: The complete collection of over 100 quotes

By: Regan, Lilith

"Computers don't kill books; people do.""We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.""Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit.""Corporations gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.""If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology.""Digiphrenia"-the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.""Step by step, place became property, property became a mortgage, andmortgages became derivative investments.""The phones are smarter but we are dumber.""Socialization depends on both autonomy and interdependency; emphasizing one at the expense of the other compromises the balance."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086PN2JD8
• ISBN13: 9798634823591
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"