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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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Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
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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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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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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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American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.
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The body is just the vehicle for something else.
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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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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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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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Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media.
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Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
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Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.
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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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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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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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It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
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Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.
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Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
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All you have to do is mate.
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