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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
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 didn’t talk about. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There’s a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
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. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
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. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
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 Read Quote