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Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.
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1947 America blasted off.
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Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks marks on clay in that time.
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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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Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
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I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
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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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You know back when there were light shows, there was this thing for people to sync into together. And the more people got synced into it, the more sync started happening. I guess it's just the size of the venue, and traveling around and so forth that it doesn't happen anymore. I don't know why.
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Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
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The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
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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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Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.
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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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There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not  -  like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance the audience does participate.
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I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.
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There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.
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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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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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Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
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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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