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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.
Howard Rheingold
People
World
Internet
Digital
Only
Access
Got
Cameras
Reporters
Full
Many
There is an elementary level of trust that is necessary for community. You have to be able to trust that your neighbors aren't going to look into your mailbox.
Howard Rheingold
You
Trust
Community
Neighbors
Able
Look
Going
Your
Elementary
Level
Necessary
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
Trend
Young
Immediate
Has-Been
Drift
Only
Crucial
Over
Voters
Been
Years
Years And Years
Effect
Gets
Anything
Process
Interested
Them
Electoral
Electoral Process
Away
Recent
Recent Years
There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received.
Howard Rheingold
Relationship
Difficult
Direct
Strongly
Between
Message
How
Send
Received
It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.
Howard Rheingold
Life
Me
My Life
Important
Changed
Saw
Says
More
Got
How
Than
Get
Hits
Page
Your
Many
People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch.
Howard Rheingold
People
Job
Lose
Touch
Longer
Move
Place
Need
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
Good
You
Better
Will
Parents
Past
Worse
Marriages
Bad
Part
Idea
Know
Make
Spouse
Times
May
Where
Your
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
Howard Rheingold
Settled
Approximately
Civilization
Longer
Years
Than
Much
Agricultural
Lived
Humans
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
Me
You
People
Think
Neighbour
Must
Mars
Dress
Know
Look
California
Make
Unusually
Course
Person
Going
Oh
Little
Your
Connection
Necessarily
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.
Howard Rheingold
Technology
Phones
World
Phone
Wired
Never
Had
Parts
Spreading
Inexpensive
Go
Mobile
Infrastructure
Many
Services
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
Howard Rheingold
Control
Participation
Openness
Surveillance
Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
Howard Rheingold
Digital
Extraordinarily
Savvy
Some
Natives
Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention.
Howard Rheingold
Time
Learning
People
Parents
Control
Young
Thinking
Spend
Ways
Neither
Attention
Schools
Instrument
Learn
How
Nor
Manage
Any
Deploy
Deciding
Information
Young People
Communicating
Use
Helping
Fundamental
Streams
I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.
Howard Rheingold
You
Smart
Awareness
Think
Other
Location
Those
Possibilities
Embedded
Carry
Combine
Devices
Environments
Know
Around
Lot
Get
Where
Information
Places
Aspects
Things
Two
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.
Howard Rheingold
People
Opportunity
Defense
Gave
Back
About
Something
Online
More
Networks
Talk
Department
Official
Goes
Which
Communicating
Things
Started
Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
Howard Rheingold
Community
Thousands
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Empathy
Support
Disease
Any
Place
Them
Deep
Bonds
Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.
Howard Rheingold
Social Media
Believe
Think
Books
Distraction
Distractions
Entire
About
Written
Clear
Afford
Being
Social
Media
Compel
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
Howard Rheingold
Life
Alone
My Life
Typewriter
Spent
Room
Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.
Howard Rheingold
Indicator
Fad
Come
Passes
May
Flash
Away
Things
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.
Howard Rheingold
Wisdom
People
Teenagers
Some
Computer
Computer Industry
Computers
Toys
Industry
Because
Were
Personal
Want
Little
Created
Desk
Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.
Howard Rheingold
Day
Technology
Online
Hours
Six
Native
Tongue
The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.
Howard Rheingold
Technology
Debate
Long
Consequences
Despite
Pennsylvania
Hats
About
Retro
Been
Engaged
Communities
Productive
Straw
Amish
Image
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Irving Babbitt
Great
Revolution
Careless
Increasingly
Everywhere
Seem
Industrial
Masses
Industrial Revolution
Urban
Ethical
Produce
Standards
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
Irving Babbitt
Democracy
Feelings
Practice
Realistic
About
Imperialistic
Observer
Idealistic
Likely
Forced
Conclude
Itself
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt
Peace
Individual
Imperialism
Imperialistic
Ultimately
Behind
Just
Peaceful
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