Howard Rheingold

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

— Howard Rheingold

What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?

— Howard Rheingold

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

— Howard Rheingold

We like technology because we don't have to talk to anybody.

— 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

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

Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.

— Howard Rheingold

There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.

— Howard Rheingold

The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking…

— Howard Rheingold

Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.

— Howard Rheingold

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it…

— Howard Rheingold

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

— 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

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

— Howard Rheingold

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

— Howard Rheingold

The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do…

— Howard Rheingold

We are taught what reality is in all kinds of ways.

— Howard Rheingold

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to…

— Howard Rheingold

Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.

— 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

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

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

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

— Howard Rheingold

What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about…

— Howard Rheingold

There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside…

— Howard Rheingold