“Flowing information, like twenty-four-hour news or MTV videos, is more like the nonnarrative experience of electronic music or extreme sports. We get a textural experience, we learn the weather, or we catch the drift. We do not get to the end; we shut it off and it continues without us.”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“Catching up with Twitter is like staying up all night to catch up on live streaming stock quotes from yesterday.”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com