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

Howard Rheingold

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

Howard Rheingold

Future

Simulation

" It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Howard Rheingold

Life

Going

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

" I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities. "

" Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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