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

Howard Rheingold

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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