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Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Technology
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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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Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
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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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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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My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
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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 always a few people who are hyper-normal.
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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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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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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.
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The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
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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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Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.
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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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All you have to do is mate.
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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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Democracy is not just voting for your leaders it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
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