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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
Sociologist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Technology
Knowledge
Universe
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World
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