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. Howard Rheingold arpanetbackcall share on social
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. Howard Rheingold changehitimportant Change image and share on social
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge. Howard Rheingold emergeenablekind Change image and share on social
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. Howard Rheingold 000agriculturalapproximately Change image and share on social
On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids. Howard Rheingold assumebuildbusiness Change image and share on social
Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us. Howard Rheingold broadcastbrowsercard Change image and share on social
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. Howard Rheingold automobilebreakcapability share on social
Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. Howard Rheingold advertiseaudiencecaptive Change image and share on social
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. Howard Rheingold audiencedealeditor share on social
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. Howard Rheingold administeragriculturebegin share on social