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

Howard Rheingold

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch. "

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" The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology. "

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

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

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

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

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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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" You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.' "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually. "

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

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