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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Blasted
America

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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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Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
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Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
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There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.
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Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
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Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
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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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Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.
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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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It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.
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Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.
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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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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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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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I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
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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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Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
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I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.
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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
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