Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoffis an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 February 1961
CountryUnited States of America
ipads hype pda
Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.
moving party media
Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.
past class next
On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.
attitude children media
Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes.
long moments investment
A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.
google microsoft may
By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.
fighting thinking care
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.
moving games role-playing
We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.
media communist theorists
I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.
firsts twenties century
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
people care take-care
Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.
phones people alternatives
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?"
order next firsts
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.
long derivatives assets
Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.