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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.
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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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The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.
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Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
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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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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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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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I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
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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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I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
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There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.
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Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
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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 must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.
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Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.
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The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
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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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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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