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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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Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
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You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
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Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks marks on clay in that time.
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There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.
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1947 America blasted off.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.'
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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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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.
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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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Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
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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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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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All you have to do is mate.
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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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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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I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.
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