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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
Howard Rheingold
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Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
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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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Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
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My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
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There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.
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American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.
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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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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.
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The audience is a big part of the show.
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Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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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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1947 America blasted off.
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The body is just the vehicle for something else.
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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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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.
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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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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.
Howard Rheingold