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" A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.' "

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" On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids. "

Howard Rheingold

Internet

People

Business

" We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter. "

" Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble. "

" 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. "

" 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 we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities. "

" Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him. "

" 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 thumb, for instance. "

" 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 and Internet access. "

" Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control. "

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

" We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we're going to reject these devices. "

Howard Rheingold

Life

Going

" People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with. "

" I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action. "

" 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 technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping. "

" Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. "

" By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo. "

" As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's day. Certainly, it affords narcissism and distraction. "

" Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them. "

" Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right. "

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

Howard Rheingold

Because

Technology

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

Howard Rheingold

Disease

About

" I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter. "

" 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 electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years. "

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

" 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

Opportunity

Back

" 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 technology, and an emergent effect of technology. "

" Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us. "

" There is an elementary level of trust that is necessary for community. You have to be able to trust that your neighbors aren't going to look into your mailbox. "

" Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it. "

" Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. "