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" There is an elementary level of trust that is necessary for community. You have to be able to trust that your neighbors aren't going to look into your mailbox. "

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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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" 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. "

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

" There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "