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
art goal individuality
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
culture impossible advertising
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.
surveillance participation antidote
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
typewriters rooms
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
internet-access cnn people
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.
years world doe
I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
mean places-you-go surveillance
You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
years civilization humans
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
democracy revolution population
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
writing people kind
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
kids telephones leukemia
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
phones tree political
A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.
past advertising mass
Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
people community
Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.