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Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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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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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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The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
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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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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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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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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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Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.
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Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
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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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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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All you have to do is mate.
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You know back when there were light shows, there was this thing for people to sync into together. And the more people got synced into it, the more sync started happening. I guess it's just the size of the venue, and traveling around and so forth that it doesn't happen anymore. I don't know why.
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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.
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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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It's quintessentially American to transform your family.
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Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
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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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The audience is a big part of the show.
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Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.
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