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The primary purpose of the internet had changed from supporting a knowledge economy to growing an attention economy.
Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human
This drive toward totalitarian technocracy is what educator and media theorist Neil Postman called technopoly, the “submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology.”
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age
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Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Douglas Rushkoff • Pockets of Weird: The Fight Over Reality
On the “demand side,” second-modernity populations starved for enabling resources were so enraptured by the plentiful bags of rice and powdered milk thrown from the back of the digital truck that little attention was paid to the drivers or their destination. We needed them; we even believed that we couldn’t live without them.
Shoshana Zuboff • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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The primary purpose of the internet had changed from supporting a knowledge economy to growing an attention economy.
Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human
The fact that microprocessing helps to liberate and disperse the production process from the fixed sequence of the assembly line greatly reduces the leverage formerly enjoyed by coercive institutions like unions and governments. If the assembly line were like a railroad within factory walls that could easily be captured by a sit-down strike, cybers
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