Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

The Internet is the dynamic engine that is driving our economy today and we must keep that open.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

The internet is an unforgiving place for yesterday's great idea.

This is a very different world. Much of it is new. What has happened is that information technology has politicized the world…It’s a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries.

Organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible whatever the consequences

Police states cannot endure under the advance of the computer because it increases the power of the people far faster than the powers of surveillance.

The force of microelectronics will blow apart all of the monopolies, hierarchies, pyramids and power grids of established industrial society.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

Government is too slow to keep up with the digital environment.

We tend to look at computers and the Internet as items of nicety. In the 21st century, they will be items of necessity.

Just don’t bet against the Internet.

In the information age, when tradition, propriety, formality or culture clash with informational ease and utility, the traditional forms must … yield.

Massive increases in productivity due to the happy marriage if information technology and advanced manufacturing techniques are having a chilling, unprecedented effect on job creations.

Government is averse to taking risk. Innovation and digital technology is all about risk taking.

Modern civilization is highly computerrorized.

A key feature of the digital age is that technology changes incessantly to sate user demands

IT for a long time has been about how do you make old processes more efficient. But with all of the progress in digital technology, there is a kind of digital transformation that is occurring. And you see it with the explosion in the number of devices; you see it in the explosion in the number of applications.