American - Critic | July 7, 1947 -
Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them.
Howard Rheingold
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Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.
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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.
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I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
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Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.
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Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
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Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.
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The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.
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Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to oneself, or being 'prideful,' is one of the cardinal Amish worries. Having your name or photo in the papers, even talking to the press, is almost a sin.
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Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
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Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.
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Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.
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