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Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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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.
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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.
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Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
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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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Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
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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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All you have to do is mate.
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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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Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
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Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
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The body is just the vehicle for something else.
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The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
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It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.
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Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
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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.
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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.
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Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
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Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
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