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Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
Sociologist
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Phoenix
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Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.
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Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
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Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
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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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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
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Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they started painting in caves they started multiplying.
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Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
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1947 America blasted off.
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There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not  -  like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance the audience does participate.
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Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.
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I think that most people really do need the sort of community you find in an office. Most people are always going to go into an office. If you are a member of a working group and you are not there physically, decisions are made without you.
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Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.
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Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
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Democracy is not just voting for your leaders it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
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In Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk to everyone and list them. And then the meeting, you don't do it American style where everyone gets up and advocates and conflicts and decides, you get up and formalize agreements.
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The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.
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There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.
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There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during the day were just ordinary citizens, and at night they would sneak off to the woods and party.
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