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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.

Howard Rheingold

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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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Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
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Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.
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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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Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
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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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My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
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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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American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.
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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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