By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.
Howard RheingoldWhenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
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 Rheingold