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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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There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.
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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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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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Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
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Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.
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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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Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
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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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People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.
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It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
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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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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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Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
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Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
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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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My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
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You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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