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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We’re entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
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. Howard Rheingold Read Quote