See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
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. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy,… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology,… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it,… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions.… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share
What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed? — Howard Rheingold Copy Share
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.' — Howard Rheingold Copy Share
Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share
One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share
Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share
There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share
The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share
People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share
I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share
