Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
Howard RheingoldIf, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.
Howard RheingoldIf 80,000,000 polygons per second is reality, what happens to you when you live in a world 160,000,000?
Howard RheingoldTechnological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.
Howard RheingoldIt's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
Howard RheingoldThere is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort grew up at the same time that television and popular music grew up, so that we had this carrier frequency that we all tuned into that gave us the feeling of a common culture, even though I was in Phoenix and someone was in Des Moines. That now we are getting the global cohort at the same time we have our first global communications. MTV is everywhere.
Howard Rheingold