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
Howard Rheingold quotes about
admit children courage kids listen parents position power takes teach
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.
technology years joints
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.
together able organize
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.
technology people use
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology,
technology people pace
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
technology play skills
A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.
village globes interconnected
Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.
technology community software
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.
kids giving people
The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power.
important pages mail
It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.
meaningful thinking giving
I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.
mean thinking design
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.
mean decision mindfulness
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.
wine sheep civilization
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.