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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
Sociologist
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Phoenix
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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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What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about Americans when we had the ball. However, they are committed in a way that American technology is not.
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My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
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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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We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.
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Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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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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Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
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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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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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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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Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
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There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.
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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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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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Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.
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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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Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
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