There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed? — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.' — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
