“The main thing I've been trying to communicate, whether it's in terms of spirituality, in terms of media, in terms of marketing and communications, or even in terms of politics and economics, is that there's one thing going on here: people are desperately afraid to accept the fact that we are moving…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.comTagged: Connectionism, Global Brain, Intimacy, One Body, Pain
“There's nobody there. There's nobody in charge. All a large corporation is is a set of commands . It's like a very simple computer program and if you look at what that program is, you can hack it to do whatever you damn well please because there's nobody in charge. Nobody understands. I mean that's…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.comTagged: Corporations, Media Conglomerates, Money
“I've always looked at media as something I call social currency, in other words: people don't buy records in order to have the record, just in order to have that music; people buy records in order to have an excuse for someone else to come over to their house and visit them. People watch a movie so…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.comTagged: Media, Movies, Relations, Social Currency, Thought Catalog
“The human species is undergoing radical change. The Internet is almost a test run for this change. I don't think the Internet, in this sense, is such a major deal at all. The Internet is a way to practice what it is that we're going to have to do for real, which is deal with privacy when we can all…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.comTagged: Internet, Isolation, Radical Change, Technological Time, Television
“Science itself is one of the major conformity enforcing areas. There are dogmas in science that are held to as if they were religions and people who say things that are against those dogmas are cast out just as viciously as they are from any other subculture. We've got to get beyond that, we've got…”— Howard Bloom, amazon.comTagged: Conformity, Diversity Generators, Dogma, Marginalization, Science
“Well the global brain is not something that's electronic and it has nothing to do with the World Wide Web and it has nothing to do with the Internet; we were World Wide Webbed and Internetted 3.5 billion years ago when life first began.”— Howard Bloom, amazon.comTagged: Connection, Connectionism, Data, Electronic, Global Brain
“With all of our Internetting, with all of our World Wide Webbing, with all of our URLs, we're still not anywhere near being able to swap the quantities of information that bacteria were able to swap via the bacterial airlines, which means your everyday goose flying from one continent to another.”— Howard Bloom, amazon.comTagged: Bacteria, Connectionism, Data Movement, Transfer
“People— once they became metropolitan, once they developed cities, and once they developed a high degree of trade between cities— began to gather together, not on the basis of tribal loyalties, but on the basis of mental loyalties. People who shared a common idea or people who shared a common emotio…”— Howard Bloom, amazon.comTagged: Beyond Tribalism, Bonding, Connection, Evolution, Network