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The body is just the vehicle for something else.

Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.
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Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
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Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
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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.
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Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.
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Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
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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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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
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There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not  -  like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance the audience does participate.
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It's quintessentially American to transform your family.
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The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
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We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
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Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
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My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
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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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Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.
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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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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
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