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Douglas Rushkoff is a writer, media theorist, and cultural critic of the digital age. Born on February 18, 1961, he is renowned for his profound insights into technology, media, and culture. Rushkoff's work covers a wide range of topics from personal technology to global politics, frequently exploring how technology shapes social structures and human behavior.

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“And thinking is not like a book you can pick up when you want to, in your own time.”

Thinking Brain Thought Digital Computers

Book:Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

Source: Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

“Meanwhile, the extraordinary measures we take to stay abreast of each minuscule change to the data stream end up magnifying the relative importance of these blips to the real scheme of things. Investors trade, politicians respond, and friends judge based on the micromovements of virtual needles. By dividing our attention between our digital extensions, we sacrifice our connection to the truer present in which we are living. The tension between the faux present of digital bombardment and the true now of a coherently living human generated the second kind of present shock, what we're calling digiphrenia—digi for "digital," and phrenia for "disordered condition of mental activity.”

Attention Internet Digital Distraction Present Present Shock Digiphrenia

Book:Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Source: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

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