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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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" 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. "

Howard Rheingold

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy. "

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

" 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. "

" One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising. "

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

" Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible. "

Howard Rheingold

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" Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it. "

" 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. "

" Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Howard Rheingold

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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. "

Howard Rheingold

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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. "

" Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "