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The audience is a big part of the show.

Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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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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I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
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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 usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.
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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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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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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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Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
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There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.
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The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
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It's quintessentially American to transform your family.
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Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks marks on clay in that time.
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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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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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Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
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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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The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.
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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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People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.
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A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.
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