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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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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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The audience is a big part of the show.
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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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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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