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" Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create. "

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Howard Rheingold

Control

Early

Government

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

Howard Rheingold

Future

Simulation

" Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Howard Rheingold

True

Library

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure. "

" 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. "

" 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

" Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield. "

" 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. "

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