Douglas Rushkoff New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures – from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete. – Douglas Rushkoff Automobiles Quotes Collectors Quotes Drivers Quotes Employment Quotes Ezpasses Quotes Figures Quotes Googlecontrolled Quotes Havoc Quotes Obsolete Quotes Ousting Quotes Rendering Quotes Selfdriving Quotes Taxicab Quotes Technologies Quotes Toll Quotes Wreaking Quotes We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there’s an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we’d best pay attention to what’s going on around us in the real world. We text while driving. Most simply, ‘present shock’ is the human response to living in a world that’s always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it’s the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it’s just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.
Sam Rayburn Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. – Sam Rayburn
Dev Patel Slumdog’ was my first movie, and I had never been to India before – I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum? – Dev Patel
Joshua Foer During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It’s unfortunate that we’ve lost the art of illumination. – Joshua Foer
Douglas Rushkoff Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model. – Douglas Rushkoff
Michael Gove There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity. – Michael Gove
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