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The audience is a big part of the show.

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
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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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I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
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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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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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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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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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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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Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
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I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.
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1947 America blasted off.
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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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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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Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
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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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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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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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Democracy is not just voting for your leaders it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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