Howard Rheingold

We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.

— Howard Rheingold

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from…

— Howard Rheingold

The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to…

— Howard Rheingold

We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium…

— Howard Rheingold

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an…

— Howard Rheingold

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

— Howard Rheingold

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't…

— Howard Rheingold

Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what…

— Howard Rheingold

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and…

— 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,…

— Howard Rheingold

The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days…

— Howard Rheingold

I think that most people really do need the sort of community you find in an office. Most people are always going…

— Howard Rheingold

In Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk…

— Howard Rheingold

Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting,…

— Howard Rheingold

Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And…

— Howard Rheingold

You know back when there were light shows, there was this thing for people to sync into together. And the more people…

— Howard Rheingold

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

— Howard Rheingold

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how…

— 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…

— 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…

— Howard Rheingold

“ho'oponopono (Hawaiian): Solving a problem by talking it out. After an invocation of the gods, the aggrieved parties sit down and discuss…

— Howard Rheingold

The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past.…

— Howard Rheingold

Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.

— Howard Rheingold

The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it,…

— Howard Rheingold

Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more…

— Howard Rheingold

Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions.…

— Howard Rheingold

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people…

— Howard Rheingold

Telecommuting has its advantages and it has its limits. I think we need to find that sweet spot in between where it…

— Howard Rheingold

We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are…

— Howard Rheingold

Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same…

— Howard Rheingold