Douglas Rushkoff Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Computers don't kill books; people do.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Book, People, Computer

  Twitter post from May 17, 2010

• Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Book, Thinking, Soul

• The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Book, Reading, Function

• Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of agency. I'm as guilty as anybody, and I write about it in a book. I'm not condemning anybody.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Book, Writing, Agency

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots suffer more burnout than real-world pilots, as they attempt to live in two worlds - home and battlefield - simultaneously. We all become overwhelmed until we learn to distinguish between data flows (like Twitter) that can only be dipped into, and data storage (like books and emails) that can be fully consumed.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Book, Home

  "Present Shock - Rushkoff". www.rushkoff.com.

• As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Book, People, Needs

  "Why I'm quitting Facebook". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

• I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They're just not really that, yet. There's all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Book, Thinking, Poison

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