Latest Douglas Rushkoff Quotes from Interviews

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• I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Creative, Hollywood, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, People, Fields

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Giants, Peers, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Winning, Years, Issues

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

• We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Playing Games, Role Playing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Want, Narrative, Ends

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down the street, for example, used to be a public activity; you'd see the other people.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  People, Sound, Example

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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?"

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Phones, People, Alternatives

  Source: www.avclub.com