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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Control
Antidotes
Surveillance
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Openness
Participation

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