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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
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Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.
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Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
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The body is just the vehicle for something else.
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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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The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
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We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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