Douglas Rushkoff : (11) " As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a ‘people’s’ Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do. " - Douglas Rushkoff " Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean’s statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players. " - Douglas Rushkoff " I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable. " - Douglas Rushkoff " Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they’re corporate gifts? We pay with our data. " - Douglas Rushkoff " Invest in people who will take care of you when you’re old. " - Douglas Rushkoff " The ‘looking forward’ so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence. " - Douglas Rushkoff " Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search – and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices – even a lifestyle brand. " - Douglas Rushkoff " The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can’t multitask, and we shouldn’t keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in. " - Douglas Rushkoff " Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that’s common to every single one of them. Right?… So it’s reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit. " - Douglas Rushkoff " Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn’t pay for itself – particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads. " - Douglas Rushkoff