Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingoldis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth7 July 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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mean places-you-go surveillance
You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
internet-access cnn people
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.
surveillance participation antidote
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
culture impossible advertising
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.
democracy revolution population
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.
argue critics hogwash indeed noise online rendered tsunami web
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.
people spam
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.
technology
We like technology because we don't have to talk to anybody.
created firm incentives known linux neither nor shown source structure
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 are going to make a connection with.
computer medium mobile
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.
relationship send strongly
There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received.
along assumed business pass people sell
On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
job longer people
People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch.