Quote

There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.

Howard Rheingold

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Actually
Cyberspace
Buildings
Existed
Built
Building

More quotes by Howard Rheingold

Image
Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
Howard Rheingold
Image
Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
Howard Rheingold
Image
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.
Howard Rheingold
Image
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
Howard Rheingold
Image
I think that most people really do need the sort of community you find in an office. Most people are always going to go into an office. If you are a member of a working group and you are not there physically, decisions are made without you.
Howard Rheingold
Image
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.
Howard Rheingold
Image
There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.
Howard Rheingold
Image
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.
Howard Rheingold
Image
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
Image
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
Howard Rheingold
Image
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
Howard Rheingold
Image
All you have to do is mate.
Howard Rheingold
Image
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.
Howard Rheingold
Image
The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.
Howard Rheingold
Image
Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.
Howard Rheingold
Image
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
Howard Rheingold
Image
You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
Howard Rheingold
Image
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.
Howard Rheingold
Image
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.
Howard Rheingold
Image
1947 America blasted off.
Howard Rheingold