113 Quotes by Howard Rheingold

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.

You can’t pick up the telephone and say, ‘Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.’

It’s kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

I’ve spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you’re deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can’t do individually.

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.

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.

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.