113 Quotes by Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

When it comes to technology, you're in a position of your children having to teach you. How often do kids have any power or authority? How often do parents come to them and listen to them? But it takes a parent with some courage to admit they don't know and want to learn.

There needs to be more involvement between mainstream media and the digital world. If you don't learn from an editor or a newsroom, where do those values of journalism come from?

SMS was commercially an accident ? it was not originally seen as a revenue-producing service, but today 100 billion SMS messages are being exchanged every month.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.

Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.