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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
Sociologist
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Phoenix
Arizona
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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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A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'
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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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Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
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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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The audience is a big part of the show.
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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
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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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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
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