Best Howard Rheingold Quotes
- Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control. Antidote
- Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy. Digital
- The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras… Access
- Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge. Emerge
- You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible. Affordable
- A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and… Artifact
- A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them. Abandon
- 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… Arpanet
- I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices… Around Know
- Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure. Go
- It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have… Automobile
- Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the… Audience
- Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and… Arrangements
- Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your… Attention
- Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers… Administers
- People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media… Artificial
- Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys… Computer
- Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of… Communities
- The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the… Amish
- Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the… Been
- Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate,… Already Beginning
- We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter. Built
- Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows. Digital
- We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal… Computer
- On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids. Along