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" You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.' "
Howard Rheingold
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" I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter. "
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" Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. "
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" I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s. "
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" Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure. "
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" You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him. "
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" Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe. "
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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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" 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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" 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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