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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
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The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
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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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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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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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Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
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We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.
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The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.
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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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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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In Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk to everyone and list them. And then the meeting, you don't do it American style where everyone gets up and advocates and conflicts and decides, you get up and formalize agreements.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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1947 America blasted off.
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Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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