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" Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues. "
Howard Rheingold
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" Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge. "
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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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" 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 of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. "
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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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" Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. "
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" 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 simply unlocked literacy. "
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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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" A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. "
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" There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received. "
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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. "
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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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" The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who want to spam you. "
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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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" Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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