Top 73 Quotes by Howard Rheingold

We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we're going to reject these devices.

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.

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.

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.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

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.

The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who want to spam you.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.