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" We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter. "
Howard Rheingold
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Spying
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" Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. "
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" 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. "
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Letters
" By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. "
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Day
Online
" 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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" What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed? "
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About
Search
" Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us. "
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Cards
Today
Data
" 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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Day
Learn
Value
" 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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" 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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" 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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Phone
" Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time. "
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Because
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Time
" 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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Technology
" 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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" Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. "
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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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Other
" 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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" 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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