We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
Howard RheingoldCommunication 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.
Howard RheingoldEssentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
Howard RheingoldAny disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
Howard RheingoldIn Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk to everyone and list them. And then the meeting, you don't do it American style where everyone gets up and advocates and conflicts and decides, you get up and formalize agreements.
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