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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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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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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
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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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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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Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.
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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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Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames, and gee it's a new technology I have got to have it.
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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.
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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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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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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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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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Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
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American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.
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There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during the day were just ordinary citizens, and at night they would sneak off to the woods and party.
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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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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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1947 America blasted off.
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