Howard Rheingold Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens. These are early indications that it's going to be difficult for people who used to have control over the news to maintain that level of control.”

“Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.”

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

“It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.”

“The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.”

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

“Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.”

“I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.”

“Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.”

“Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.”