Quotes by Howard Rheingold

About Howard Rheingold:

Howard Rheingold is a critic, writer, and teacher; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing).
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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.

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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 ...

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It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the ...

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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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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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 did...

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

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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.

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The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens. These are early indications that it's going to be difficult for people who used to have control over the n...

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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 ...

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameHoward Rheingold
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornJuly 7, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLiterary Critic; Sociologist; Essayist; Author