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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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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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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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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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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
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Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
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1947 America blasted off.
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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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Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.
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There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.
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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
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The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
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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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Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
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It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.
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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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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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I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
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Democracy is not just voting for your leaders it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
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There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.
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