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

Howard Rheingold

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

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" Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come. "

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

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

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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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" Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention. "

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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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" 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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" Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter. "

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" Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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