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Howard Rheingold

American Critic

Born: Jul 7, 1947

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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. Howard Rheingold

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Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create. Howard Rheingold

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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. Howard Rheingold

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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. Howard Rheingold

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Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time. Howard Rheingold

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The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it. Howard Rheingold

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A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. Howard Rheingold

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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. Howard Rheingold

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

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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. Howard Rheingold

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action. Howard Rheingold

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It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. Howard Rheingold

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Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years. Howard Rheingold

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There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received. Howard Rheingold

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People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch. Howard Rheingold

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The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don't know. Howard Rheingold

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Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. Howard Rheingold

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Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping. Howard Rheingold

Capitalism Old Few Ownership Hundred Hundred Years Markets Crossroads Only Shared Know Insurance Arrangements Years Company Cooperative Technologies Liability

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with. Howard Rheingold

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