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73 quotes by Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold (born July 7, 1947) is a critic, writer, and teacher; his specialties are 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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You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have... →

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

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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

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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... →

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Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to... →

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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... →

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Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

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The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate... →

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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... →

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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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Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

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Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

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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... →

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