Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
Howard RheingoldIn Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that what's missing from telephones and computer interfaces is this ability to move around in three-space.
Howard RheingoldThere are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during the day were just ordinary citizens, and at night they would sneak off to the woods and party.
Howard RheingoldIt's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.
Howard RheingoldFinding 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.
Howard RheingoldBack in the really early days, the men went out hunting, the women stayed home with the kids, and would hold the kid in one arm against the heart, so that's the left, and with the right arm they would throw. And it turns out you cannot make that calculation in real time. You have to have an algorithm set up. So these brain mechanisms evolved in order to do that, and when they evolved, the thing is that where there is a useful capability it often adapts to places it wasn't evolved for.
Howard Rheingold