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Howard Rheingold


American
July 7, 1947
Critic
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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.


Howard Rheingold
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
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Tags: Than Much Years
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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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Tags: You Every Person
Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.
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Tags: Will Between Soon
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You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'


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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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Tags: People World Only
Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble.
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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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Tags: You Who Until
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.
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Tags: Know Only Years
I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.
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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.
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Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them.
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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.
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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.
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Tags: You People Me