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Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold (born July 7, 1947) is an American critic, writer, and teacher, known for his specialties on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing).

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We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

Encounters, Machinery, Moving, Spying, World

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.

Democracy, Govern, Population, Revolution, Simply, Unlocked

Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.

Civilization, Communication, Forms, Markets, Press, Smart

Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

Change, Changing The World, Enables, Technology, World

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.

Advertising, Culture, Difficult, Impossible, Online, Sustain

Let's cut loose what you were given and find what you can seek.

Cut, Cutting, Given, Loose, Seek

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Essentials, Information, Knowing, Online, Twenties

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.

Anatomically, Gathering, Human, Hunting, Several, Years

Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.

Civilization, Earth, Happen, Next, Point, Technological

Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And these, are really people for the most part who get uptighter. The idea that people you know might take their clothes off and dance in the street.

Clothes, Culture, Drama, Fancy, Ideas, Know

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

Agendas, Meetings, Western, Says, Meeting, Agenda

In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that what's missing from telephones and computer interfaces is this ability to move around in three-space.

Japan, Language, Moving, Space, Translate, Written

The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.

Brain, Games, Hit, Parallel, Rocks, Same

Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

Authenticity, Craig, Craigslist, People, Respect

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Americans, Art, Goal, Individuality, Life

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

Allowed, Down, Essentially, Happiness, Pursuit, Pursuit Of Happiness

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

Affordable, Becoming, Mean, Places You Go, Surveillance

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.

21St, Americans, Balls, Technology, Way

I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.

Humans, Language, Think, Thinking, Wizards

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

Community, Consists, Effect, Hardware, Software, Technology

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