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Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff

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Birthday February 18, 1961

Educated At California Institute Of The Arts, Utrecht University, Princeton University

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Journalist, Writer

Religion Atheism

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Chaos is the way that nature reasserts herself into our attempts at organization and control, especially when those efforts are intentionally oppressive.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus! Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture

Against Bureaucracy

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Catching up with Twitter is like staying up all night to catch up on live streaming stock quotes from yesterday.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Digital media Notes to self Present Shock Twitter

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The content is not the message, the contact is. The ping itself. It's the synaptic transmission of an organism trying to wake itself up.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed

Connectionism Medium = Message

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New ideas seem to emerge from a dozen places at once, a mysterious zeitgeist synchronicity until we realize that they are all aspects of the same idea, emerging from a single network of minds.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Notes to self Present Shock

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...the bloggers, designers, lovers, and programmers all sacrifice their connection to natural and emergent rhythms and patterns in order to match those dictated by their technologies and the artificial situations they create.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Present Shock Rhythms Time

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Our devices and, by extension, our nervous systems are now attached to the entire online universe, all the time.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed

Post-Biology Brains Digital Life Always On Connectionism

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The network is still controlled centrally by an authority, but it functions in a decentralized way.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed

Totalitarian Silent Power Central Control Authority Digital Power Structures Web Power The Ironclad Web

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Every choice potentially brings us out of immersive participation and into another decision matrix.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Notes to self Present Shock

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Instead of trying to get everyone to conform to a simple set of commands, a great manager, organizer, or leader strives instead to create an environment or provide the tools through which people naturally cooperate.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box

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'Humanism,' a term first coined in 1808 to identify this Renaissance trend, refers not to some sort of humanitarian impulse, but to the solipsism and self-absorption characterizing the era’s religion, art, and science.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back

Capitalism Humanism

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That's why now when I look at Obama talking about jobs, let's create jobs for everyone. It's like who wants a fucking job?

— Douglas Rushkoff, Livestream.com

Capitalism Job Money

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Our iPads and Androids are nothing like the productivity-computing tools on which they may once have been based but are instead purchasing platforms designed to increase the ease and speed with which we consume.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Digital media Notes to self Present Shock

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Your business must be structured so that the more they know, the better you look, and the better you really are.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box

Business Transparency

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Everyone's perspective is different; everyone's perspective matters.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box

Perspectivism Thought Catalog Let Everyone Be Heard All People Have Value

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— Douglas Rushkoff, Game of Thrones close read

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We do not watch videos as much as we are engulfed by them.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus! Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture

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Social media lets people feed back their responses immediately and to one another instead of just back to the business or politician concerned. Then other people respond as much to those messages as they do to the product or policy. They are feeding back to one another.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Facts Notes to Notes to self Present Shock

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Great ideas don't really come out of sudden eureka moments, but after long, steady slogs through problems. They are slow, iterative processes. Great ideas, as Johnson explained it to a TED audience, 'fade into view over long periods of time.'

— Douglas Rushkoff and Steven Johnson, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Notes to self Present Shock

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Flowing information, like twenty-four-hour news or MTV videos, is more like the nonnarrative experience of electronic music or extreme sports. We get a textural experience, we learn the weather, or we catch the drift. We do not get to the end; we shut it off and it continues without us.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Digital media Notes to self Present Shock

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Leaving people in rooms with no external time cues, researchers found that the average person's biological clock would actually lengthen to a twenty-five-hour cycle. This, they concluded, is why traveling east, which shortens the day, is so much more disorienting than traveling west, which lengthens it.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Fac Facts Notes to self Time

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Camcorders and VCRs gave people the ability to make their own media, and demystified the process through which the media they watched was created. Stars lost some of their allure, commercials lost their impact, and newscasters lost their authority.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Life Inc

Demystification History Of Communication

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How many generations before our own asked people to earn and save enough money while young in order to accumulate a nest egg big enough to live off for the last third of one’s life? It’s a bit like asking an animal to get fat enough not to have to eat again for the rest of its natural life.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

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The corporate book industry can’t grow at the rate required by publicly held companies, anyway. This is why it is failing. Publishing is a sustainable business, not a growth industry. So it needs to be run by people looking for sustainable projects and careers—not runaway profits.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Arthurmag.com

Book Publishing

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Our current tax policy rewards capital gains (extraction) with a very low tax rate, while punishing dividends (along with revenue, earnings, and payroll) at a very high tax rate. If we want to promote transactions and circulation, we should reverse that.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Douglas Rushkoff on How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity – and How To Fix It — NewCo Shift

Tax Policy Taxes Capital Gains

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What makes fractals so interesting is that they are self-similar. If you zoom in on a shape in the pattern and look at the image at a much higher scale, you find that very same shape reappearing in the details on this new level. Zoom in again and the patterns emerge again.

— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Facts Fractals Notes to self Present Shock

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