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Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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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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I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
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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.
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Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they started painting in caves they started multiplying.
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I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.
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People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.
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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.
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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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Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.
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Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
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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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Democracy is not just voting for your leaders it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
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I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
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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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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 Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
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The audience is a big part of the show.
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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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Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
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It's quintessentially American to transform your family.
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