113 Quotes by Howard Rheingold

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.

I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.

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

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.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

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

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.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

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