Team Human
Douglas Rushkoff
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The primary purpose of the internet had changed from supporting a knowledge economy to growing an attention economy.”
“People are at best an asset to be exploited, and at worst a cost to be endured. Everything is optimized for capital, until it runs out of world to consume.”
“Socialization depends on both autonomy and interdependency; emphasizing one at the expense of the other compromises the balance.”
“We can be fully human without being in complete control of our world.”
“The most successful of biology’s creatures coexist in mutually beneficial ecosystems.”
“If we don't truly know what something is programmed to do, chances are it is programming us. Once that happens, we may as well be machines ourselves.”
“Cynical views of humans as a mindless mob, incapable of behaving intelligently and peacefully, are used to justify keeping us apart and denying us roles as autonomous actors.”
“Chinese laborers "finish" smartphones by wiping off any fingerprints with a highly toxic solvent proven to shorten the workers lives. That's how valuable it is for consumers to believe their devices have been assembled by magic rather than by the fingers of underpaid and poisoned children.”
“being human is a team sport.”
“Without socially positive opportunities to exercise our autonomy, we tend toward self-promotion over self-sacrifice and fixate on personal gain over collective prosperity.”
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transhumanism, autonomy, myths, smartphones, social-media, being-human, android, mobile-devices, child-labor, technology, toxic, life, iphones, politics, china, media-theory, mob-mentality, artificial-intelligence
