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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.

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.

Douglas Rushkoff
Past, Class, Next

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

Douglas Rushkoff
Technology, People, Fields
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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

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
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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

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