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There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.

Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
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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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There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.
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1947 America blasted off.
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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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Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
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I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.
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American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.
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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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Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.
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All you have to do is mate.
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