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
important pages mail
It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.
smart responsibility guarantees-that
We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.
kids giving people
The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power.
digital savvy
Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
technology community software
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.
media people faces
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.
technology play skills
A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.
attention pay limited-resources
Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.
technology people use
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology,
war communication technology
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.
village globes interconnected
Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.
knowing essentials tools
Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.
technology people pace
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
issues leader voting
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.