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" Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come. "

Howard Rheingold

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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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" The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don't know. "

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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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" Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it. "

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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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" One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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 on their desk. "

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

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" It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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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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