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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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 news to maintain that level of control.
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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.
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When it comes to technology, you're in a position of your children having to teach you. How often do kids have any power or authority? How often do parents come to them and listen to them? But it takes a parent with some courage to admit they don't know and want to learn.
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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.
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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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People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch.
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On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
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There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.