Quotes from Howard Rheingold

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

ho'oponopono (Hawaiian): Solving a problem by talking it out. After an invocation of the gods, the aggrieved parties sit down and discuss the issue until it is set right (pono means righteousness).

If the rule of thumb for attention literacy is to pay attention to your intention, then the heuristic for crap detection is to make skepticism your default.

ngaobera: a slight inflammation of the throat produced by screaming too much.

fisselig (German): Flustered to the point of incompetence. A temporary state of inexactitude and sloppiness that is elicited by another person's nagging.

When I talk about "cyborg literacy," I mean a set of skills and social practices that optimize the ability to use physical and cognitive technologies to augment, amplify, or extend human thinking and communication capabilities.

knowing 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.

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.