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

Howard Rheingold

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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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" Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. "

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" Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change. "

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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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" 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 in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s. "

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

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" You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible. "

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" Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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" The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it. "

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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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" 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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