113 Quotes by Howard Rheingold

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology,

Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it.

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.

As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's day. Certainly, it affords narcissism and distraction.

Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.