More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered states of consciousness. The rhythm of the music was precisely 120 beats per minute, the frequency of the fetal heart rate, and the same beat believed to be used by South American shamans to bring their tribes into a trance state. Through dancing together, without prescribed movements, or even partners, rave dancers sought to reach group consciousness on a level they had never experienced before.
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 lates… - 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 lates…
- Douglas Rushkoff
... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept. - Douglas Rushkoff
... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.
We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively. - Douglas Rushkoff
We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.
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
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.
In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program… - Douglas Rushkoff
In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program…
We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme. - Douglas Rushkoff
We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.
Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most pe… - Douglas Rushkoff
Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most pe…
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause. - Douglas Rushkoff
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occas… - Douglas Rushkoff
Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occas…
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