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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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It's quintessentially American to transform your family.
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Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they started painting in caves they started multiplying.
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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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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.
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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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The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.
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It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
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Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
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There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.
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The audience is a big part of the show.
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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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What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about Americans when we had the ball. However, they are committed in a way that American technology is not.
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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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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.
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Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.
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Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames, and gee it's a new technology I have got to have it.
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The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
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