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Howard Rheingold is a writer, scholar, and digital media thinker. Born on July 7, 1947, he is renowned for his profound insights into network culture, collaboration, and the digital age. Rheingold's writings cover a range of topics from cyberliteracy to virtual reality, and his works have had a significant impact on understanding social and technological changes in the digital era.

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“We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.”

World Moving Objects Built Encounters Machinery

Book:Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

Source: Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

“The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.”

World Kind Used Enemy Gone Restructuring

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“If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.”

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“Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.”

World Universe Technology Changing The World

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“If 80,000,000 polygons per second is reality, what happens to you when you live in a world 160,000,000?”

Ifs World Reality Happens

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“The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.”

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

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“The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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Author:Howard Rheingold

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Born: July 7, 1947
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 119

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