It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
Howard RheingoldYou can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
Howard RheingoldYou can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
Howard Rheingold