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Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.
Howard Rheingold
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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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