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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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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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Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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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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Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they started painting in caves they started multiplying.
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Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
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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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There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.
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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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1947 America blasted off.
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Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
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A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'
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Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.
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The body is just the vehicle for something else.
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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.
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You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
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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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I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
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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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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
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