Douglas Rushkoff Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Reality, Design

• This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment when we have the ability to step out of the story altogether. Renaissances are historical instances of widespread recontextualisation. People in a variety of different arts, philosophies and sciences have the ability to reframe their reality. Renaissance literally means 'rebirth'. It is the rebirth of old ideas in a new context.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

• People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Reality, People, World

• The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that there's something going on that we need to tap into - are artifacts, or symptoms of living in this atemporal reality. And it's not any worse than living in the 'time is money' reality that we're leaving.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Reality, Leaving, Trying

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