Howard Rheingold

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

— Howard Rheingold

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

— Howard Rheingold

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.

— Howard Rheingold

I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.

— Howard Rheingold

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

— Howard Rheingold

There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.

— Howard Rheingold

Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.

— Howard Rheingold

It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.

— Howard Rheingold

Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds…

— Howard Rheingold

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

— Howard Rheingold

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.…

— Howard Rheingold

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

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

I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some…

— Howard Rheingold

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

A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the…

— Howard Rheingold

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters…

— Howard Rheingold

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

The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount…

— Howard Rheingold

Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way…

— Howard Rheingold

In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that…

— Howard Rheingold

Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by…

— Howard Rheingold

Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young…

— Howard Rheingold

The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers…

— Howard Rheingold

Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

— Howard Rheingold

Let's cut loose what you were given and find what you can seek.

— Howard Rheingold

It's quintessentially American to transform your family.

— Howard Rheingold

My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.

— Howard Rheingold

You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.

— Howard Rheingold

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

— Howard Rheingold

Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.

— Howard Rheingold

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

— Howard Rheingold

I guess music in general is the transportation business.

— Howard Rheingold

“ngaobera: a slight inflammation of the throat produced by screaming too much.”

— Howard Rheingold

Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

— Howard Rheingold

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

— Howard Rheingold

Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.

— Howard Rheingold

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

— Howard Rheingold

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

— Howard Rheingold

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

— Howard Rheingold