American - Critic | July 7, 1947 -
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.
Howard Rheingold
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Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.
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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.
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We like technology because we don't have to talk to anybody.
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I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.
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We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s.
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It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
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The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.
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On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
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Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
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Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
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People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.
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