On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Howard Rheingold
Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Howard Rheingold
The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly. – Howard Rheingold
Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow’s mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us. – Howard Rheingold
People’s social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone. – Howard Rheingold
The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don’t need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it. – Howard Rheingold
Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Howard Rheingold
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn’t before possible, new kinds of politics emerge. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Howard Rheingold
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. – Howard Rheingold
Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Howard Rheingold
There’s a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received. – Howard Rheingold
Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create. – Howard Rheingold
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter. – Howard Rheingold
By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Howard Rheingold
A phone tree isn’t an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. – Howard Rheingold
