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Howard Rheingold
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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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The body is just the vehicle for something else.
Howard Rheingold
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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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
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People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.
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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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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.
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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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Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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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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1947 America blasted off.
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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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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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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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Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
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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.'
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
Howard Rheingold
The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
Howard Rheingold
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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