Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Howard Rheingold
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Theater
Ordinary
Citizens
Grew
Dionysian
Party
Strands
Night
Sneak
Two
Woods
Would
Folks
More quotes by Howard Rheingold
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
Howard Rheingold
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
Howard Rheingold
Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
Howard Rheingold
Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
Howard Rheingold
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
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
Howard Rheingold
We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.
Howard Rheingold
A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'
Howard Rheingold
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.
Howard Rheingold
Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.
Howard Rheingold
Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.
Howard Rheingold
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
Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
Howard Rheingold
Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
Howard Rheingold
You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
Howard Rheingold
Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
Howard Rheingold
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
Howard Rheingold
The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
Howard Rheingold