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" Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them. "

Howard Rheingold

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" I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline. "

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" 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. "

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" 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 sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand. "

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" The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens. These are early indications that it's going to be difficult for people who used to have control over the news to maintain that level of control. "

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" Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues. "

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

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" A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. "

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" Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to oneself, or being 'prideful,' is one of the cardinal Amish worries. Having your name or photo in the papers, even talking to the press, is almost a sin. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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 BlackBerry call your attention. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. "

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" 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 since the printing press and the telephone. "

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" 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. "

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