Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
Howard RheingoldMaybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
Howard RheingoldThe Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
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 RheingoldDinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.
Howard RheingoldWe know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it.
Howard Rheingold