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Howard Rheingold
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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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In Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk to everyone and list them. And then the meeting, you don't do it American style where everyone gets up and advocates and conflicts and decides, you get up and formalize agreements.
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
You know back when there were light shows, there was this thing for people to sync into together. And the more people got synced into it, the more sync started happening. I guess it's just the size of the venue, and traveling around and so forth that it doesn't happen anymore. I don't know why.
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.
Howard Rheingold
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
Howard Rheingold
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
Howard Rheingold
The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
Howard Rheingold
Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
Howard Rheingold
1947 America blasted off.
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
Howard Rheingold
