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
jobs writing simple
By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.
people authenticity craigslist
Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.
passing-away fads may
Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.
games firsts kind
A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'
names people patterns
Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.
community support empathy
Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
editors letters journalist
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.
teenager entering world
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.
smart communication media
Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.
technology phones world
Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.
phones amplify cooperation
Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.
smart thinking two
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.
opportunity people defense
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.
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.