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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.

Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
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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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I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.
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Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
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Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
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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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It's quintessentially American to transform your family.
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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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1947 America blasted off.
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There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.
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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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The body is just the vehicle for something else.
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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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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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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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You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
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