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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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" 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. "

Howard Rheingold

Communication

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People

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Howard Rheingold

You

Surveillance

" 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. "

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

" Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Howard Rheingold

Say

Kid

" 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. "

" The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Howard Rheingold

Opportunity

Back

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

" 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. "

Howard Rheingold

Life

Going

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

" 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. "

Howard Rheingold

Revolution

Industrial Revolution

You

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

" 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. "