Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.

On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

What the Internet is great at is building networks.

In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.

The Internet opens a lot of doors to those who are passionate.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect—to help people work together—and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

This new form of communication could have some utility.

I love the Internet. I love my mobile devices. I love the fact that they mean that whoever chooses to will be able to watch this talk far beyond this auditorium.

Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchanging ideas with others. By contrast, the Internet can be an active medium, allowing individuals to use e-mail, discussion groups, and even Web sites to engage with one another.

With the advent of technology the world has surely become a smaller place.

The Internet is the vehicle we're driving to share our visuals, outrage, and ideas around the world.

Everyone is using the Internet for almost everything - trailers, ads, movies, and short films. This is the only thing that will reach everybody in the world.

The Internet is the fastest way to get what you want and expose yourself to music you would never have heard otherwise.