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You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about Americans when we had the ball. However, they are committed in a way that American technology is not.
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Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
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I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.
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Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media.
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Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks marks on clay in that time.
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