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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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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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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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Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
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All you have to do is mate.
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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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American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.
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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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Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
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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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We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
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There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.
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Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
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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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It's quintessentially American to transform your family.
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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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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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