A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.
Douglas RushkoffA currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.
Douglas RushkoffIf the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.
Douglas RushkoffThe easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers.
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