Howard Rheingold quotes - page 2

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible. (Howard Rheingold)
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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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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A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.
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Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
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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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By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.
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Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.
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Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.
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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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There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it. (Howard Rheingold)
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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I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
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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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People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.
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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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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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One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.
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Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
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Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.
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