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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause. — Douglas Rushkoff

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think. — Douglas Rushkoff

The plague did not lead to Europe's economic collapse. Rather, Europe's currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague. — Douglas Rushkoff

I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable. — Douglas Rushkoff

Nothing is sacred. And, more importantly ... the 'nothing' you end up with is truly sacred. — Douglas Rushkoff

Step by step, place became property, property became a mortgage, and
mortgages became derivative investments. — Douglas Rushkoff

the industrial ideal: anyone can request work, do so anonymously, never meet the employee, and reject the results without ever paying. The — Douglas Rushkoff

By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google. — Douglas Rushkoff

I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen. — Douglas Rushkoff

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?" — Douglas Rushkoff

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme. — Douglas Rushkoff

Computers don't kill books; people do. — Douglas Rushkoff

A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. — Douglas Rushkoff

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain's own ability to remember things. — Douglas Rushkoff

Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years. — Douglas Rushkoff

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist. — Douglas Rushkoff

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us, — Douglas Rushkoff

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons. — Douglas Rushkoff

The phones are smarter but we are dumber. — Douglas Rushkoff

Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit. — Douglas Rushkoff

Keep the progress, but recover the lost values. Technically, then he's talking about renaissance: the rebirth of old ideas in a new framework. — Douglas Rushkoff

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. — Douglas Rushkoff

Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets. — Douglas Rushkoff

Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information. — Douglas Rushkoff

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively. — Douglas Rushkoff

Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old. — Douglas Rushkoff

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment. — Douglas Rushkoff

She reverse engineered a startup based on market conditions, industry trends, and nascent investor fads. — Douglas Rushkoff

It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order. — Douglas Rushkoff

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience. — Douglas Rushkoff

Digiphrenia - the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time. — Douglas Rushkoff

I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology. — Douglas Rushkoff

We're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept. — Douglas Rushkoff

Once a line could truly be drawn in something other than sand, the notion of history as a progression became possible. — Douglas Rushkoff

The smartest hackers understand that their skill at hacking technology may be less important than their skill at hacking the digital marketplace. — Douglas Rushkoff