Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.
Howard RheingoldThe industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.
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