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

Howard Rheingold

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

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

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" Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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'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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" 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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" Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues. "

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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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" 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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