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Howard Rheingold

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

Howard Rheingold

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

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.

– Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold

We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we’re going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we’re going to reject these devices.

– Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold

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

Howard Rheingold

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

– Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold

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

Howard Rheingold

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.

– Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

– Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold

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

Howard Rheingold

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

Howard Rheingold

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

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