Howard Rheingold

Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.

The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don't know.

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.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have.