Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about. — 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
