The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.
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 RheingoldKnowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.
Howard Rheingold