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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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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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Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
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I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
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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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The audience is a big part of the show.
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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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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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Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
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Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
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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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My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
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Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
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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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Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.
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The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
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Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.
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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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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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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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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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