Howard Rheingold Quotes

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

We do live in this age of new media.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the world.

So much of the world is digital.

The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.

Millennials' tech and global savvy will make them instrumental in shaping our mobile future worldwide.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world