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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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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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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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I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
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My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
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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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There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.
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Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
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You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
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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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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
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Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
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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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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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It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
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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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Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
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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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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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