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Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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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 kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
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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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We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
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Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
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You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
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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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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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Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
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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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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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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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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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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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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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Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.
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You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
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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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You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
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1947 America blasted off.
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