Howard Rheingold Quotes

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• We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.
• When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology,
• Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to…
• In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.
• The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause…
• 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. The printing press…
• Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
• It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
• You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
• A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.
• Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
• Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
• Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
• By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.
• Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.
• Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.
• Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.
• Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
• I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.
• I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

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