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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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It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
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We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
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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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I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
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