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Howard Rheingold
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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media.
Howard Rheingold
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
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Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
Howard Rheingold
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
Howard Rheingold
I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
Howard Rheingold
All you have to do is mate.
Howard Rheingold
Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
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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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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during the day were just ordinary citizens, and at night they would sneak off to the woods and party.
Howard Rheingold
Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
Howard Rheingold
There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.
Howard Rheingold
Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
Howard Rheingold
Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
Howard Rheingold
A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold