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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
Sociologist
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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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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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It's quintessentially American to transform your family.
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Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.
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There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.
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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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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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Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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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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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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I think that most people really do need the sort of community you find in an office. Most people are always going to go into an office. If you are a member of a working group and you are not there physically, decisions are made without you.
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The body is just the vehicle for something else.
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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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I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
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Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
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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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The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.
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Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.
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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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