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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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We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.
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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
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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 audience is a big part of the show.
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Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames, and gee it's a new technology I have got to have it.
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I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
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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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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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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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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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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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The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
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It's quintessentially American to transform your family.
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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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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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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
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