Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

As we get sucked more and more into the technosphere, we become less and less capable of understanding it because it becomes a technological milieu that we're in.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate "comprehensivity.

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

In a few years the androids will be working for us. Let’s hope that we never have to work for them

We are much better at creating complex technologies than we are at controlling them.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

Technology is a wonderful thing if you are putting it to use, less so if it is putting an end to your usefulness.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

I think the 'Terminator' idea is a reasonable one - that is that one day the Internet becomes self-aware and simply says that humans are in the way. After all, if you meet an ant hill and you're making a 10-lane super highway, you just pave over the ants. It's not that you don't like the ants, it's not that you hate ants; they are just in the way.

We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives.

As more intelligent computer assistance comes into being, it will amplify human progress.

A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ.

I want an AI-powered society because I see so many ways that AI can make human life better. We can make so many decisions more systematically or automate away repetitive tasks and save so much human time.

It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind's brain.

I want the humans to be able to hold their own against the strength of the machines.

I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's like going down the rabbit hole.

I think that every generation will say that technology has gone too far. That's probably always going to be the case. We can't even imagine what our children will have in their adult lives.