Howard Rheingold : (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. " - Howard Rheingold

" You can’t pick up the telephone and say, ‘Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.’ " - Howard Rheingold

" Mindfulness means being aware of how you’re deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention. " - Howard Rheingold

" People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch. " - Howard Rheingold

" Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to oneself, or being ‘prideful,’ is one of the cardinal Amish worries. Having your name or photo in the papers, even talking to the press, is almost a sin. " - Howard Rheingold

" The idea that your spouse or your parents don’t know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don’t know. " - Howard Rheingold

" Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online – surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them. " - Howard Rheingold