Howard Rheingold
by The Virtual Community Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier-Perseus Books (1993) · 26 Apr 2012
communication around a network as a distributed resource with no central control manifested in the rapid growth of the anarchic 26-04-2012 21:41 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 9 de 18 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html global conversation known as Usenet. This invention of distributed
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in regard to future communications technologies. In the private sector, telecommunication companies, television networks, computer companies, cable companies, and newspapers 26-04-2012 21:41 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 13 de 18 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html in the United States, Europe, and Japan are jockeying for
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communities in every important context-politically, economically, socially, cognitively. Each different perspective reveals something that the other perspectives do not 26-04-2012 21:41 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 17 de 18 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html reveal. Each different discipline fails to see something that another
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origins in military, scientific, and government communications. Brand had been part of the faculty at an online institute devoted 26-04-2012 21:42 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 4 de 27 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/2.html to stretching the imaginations of business leaders--the Western Behavioral
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eleven conferences about cultures, seventeen conferences about place, and seventeen conferences about interactions. List of Public Conferences on the WELL ---------- 26-04-2012 21:42 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 8 de 27 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/2.html ARTS AND LETTERS ---------- Art Com Photography (g pho) Electronic Net
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coho) Network Design (g design) Integrations (g origin) Education (g ed) Science (g science) Energy (g power) Transportation (g transport) 26-04-2012 21:42 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 9 de 27 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/2.html Whole Earth (g we) Review GRATEFUL DEAD ---------- Grateful Dead (g
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Test (g test) General technical (g gentech) Public (g public) WELLcome and help (g well) programmers (g public) view MetaWELL 26-04-2012 21:42 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 10 de 27 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/2.html Virtual (g vc) Communities (g vc) SOME POPULAR PRIVATE CONFERENCES
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subculture that had been created by a cultural upheaval ten years after the counterculture era--the personal computer (PC) revolution. 26-04-2012 21:42 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 11 de 27 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/2.html "The personal computer revolutionaries were the counterculture," Brand reminded me
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and inextricably connected. Parents, libertarians, Deadheads, radio producers, writers, homeowners, and sports fans all have particular places to hang 26-04-2012 21:42 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 23 de 27 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/2.html out in the WELL. But in the News conference, the
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topic of conversation by asserting a proposition or asking a question or more generally describing an area for general discussion. 26-04-2012 21:42 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 25 de 27 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/2.html Immediately after and under the introduction, somebody writes a
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less enormous, less expensive devices proliferated, but strictly as high-tech instrumentation for scientists or payroll devices for businesses. 26-04-2012 21:43 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 3 de 43 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/3.html In 1957, the Soviet launching of the first artificial satellite
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in telecom jargon--for universal, high-speed digital networks of the future. Entertainment and communications industries are both eyeing the 26-04-2012 21:43 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 13 de 43 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/3.html same technological pipelines for delivering their products. In laboratories in
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20515 Hon. Sam Gejdenson 2nd Congressional District, Connecticut Rm. 2416 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Hon. Newton Gingrich 26-04-2012 21:43 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 29 de 43 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/3.html 6th Congressional District, Georgia Rm. 2428 Rayburn House Office Building
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<ELB000> Electronic books <FEE000> Fee-Based Services <FRE000> FREE-NET systems <BBS000> General Bulletin Boards <HYT000> HYTELNET On-line versions 26-04-2012 21:43 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 34 de 43 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/3.html <NAS000> NASA databases <NET000> Network Information Services <DIR000> Whois/White
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into the Emergency Management Information System and Reference Index (EMISARI). Along with parts of Engelbart's NLS (oNLineSystem), EMISARI 26-04-2012 21:44 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 4 de 35 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/4.html was the original ancestor of today's CMC groupmind systems
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powerful, but there was more work to be done to turn online "journals" and "notebooks" into flexible conferencing systems. 26-04-2012 21:44 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 5 de 35 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/4.html Turoff concentrated on structuring text messages into dialogues. ARPA continued
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resumes and "situation wanted." Children, their behavior and activities. Discussing antiques and vintage items. Discussion of various kinds of animation. 26-04-2012 21:44 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 16 de 35 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/4.html Tattoos and body decoration discussions. Books of all genres, and
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-market: Newsgroups: uiowa.forsale,misc.forsale,rec.pets,rec.pets.herp From: bbreffle@icaen.uiowa.edu (Barry Ronald Breffle) 26-04-2012 21:44 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 18 de 35 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/4.html Subject: Burmese Pythons FOR SALE Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering
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world into a publisher, an eyewitness reporter, an advocate, an organizer, a student or teacher, and potential participant in a 26-04-2012 21:44 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 22 de 35 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/4.html worldwide citizen-to-citizen conversation. The technology of personal telecommunications
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homemade, grassroots magazines that grew out of the "fanzines" of science-fiction enthusiasts. Zine publishers and BBS sysops are both 26-04-2012 21:44 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 23 de 35 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/4.html channels for the direct manifestation of popular culture, unedited, often
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lines. Error-corrected transmission is important when sending computer programs such as MODEM itself, because such transmission errors can render 26-04-2012 21:44 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 24 de 35 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/4.html the program unusable at the receiving end. They called
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ARMS announces, among other things: \\\: PLEASE. . . Use real names only! \\\: \\\: This BBS is geared toward firearms, law, aviation and science. \\\: \\\: \\\: 26-04-2012 21:44 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 31 de 35 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/4.html IF YOU WISH TO ANONOMOUSLY [sic REPORT A CRIME, USE
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they want to build more, they are asked to build something of public value. The science center, museum, university, shopping 26-04-2012 21:44 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 18 de 31 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/5.html mall, entertainment section, rain forest, Yellowstone Park, and planetarium
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the future. Curtis is currently involved in adapting the LambdaMOO server for use as an international teleconferencing and image database 26-04-2012 21:44 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 26 de 31 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/5.html system for astronomers. This would enable scientists to give
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the possibility of adding video to computer conferencing. Part of that ontological untrustworthiness of cyberspace is the lack of body 26-04-2012 21:44 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 28 de 31 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/5.html language and facial expression. Misunderstandings that tangle group communications and
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an expiation ritual for a subculture member who has committed its ultimate taboo. Reid noted that channel operators (chanops) who 26-04-2012 21:45 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 7 de 22 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/6.html administer individual channels, and IRC operators (opers) who voluntarily
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[sic. <spam> koala* 20 minutes since first attack <spamgod> thanks <hstanley> who's in baghdad here? <Mark> scoop? hah! 26-04-2012 21:45 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 12 de 22 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/6.html <umfonta6> bombs are happening <Mosiah> bombs hitting the net! <CaptainJ
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the graphics and information-shuffling capabilities of next-generation personal computers--the much-ballyhooed multimedia revolution that combines sound, text, 26-04-2012 21:45 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 19 de 22 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/6.html graphics, and video on one affordable unit--have taken an
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Rose: A Tale of Two Virtual Communities Chapter Nine: Electronic Frontiers and Online Activists Chapter Ten: Disinformocracy Bibliography Chapter Seven: Japan and the Net By Howard Rheingold Thousands of people in Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
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experiments by orders of magnitude. Japanese researchers in electronics and computer technology had decades to develop their body of collective 26-04-2012 21:45 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 19 de 25 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/7.html knowledge and accumulate expertise. Those who would learn how
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alternative French television channel Canal Plus, Chine Lanzmann, was another legendary animateur from Calvacom. She was notorious in France 26-04-2012 21:45 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 7 de 22 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/8.html for having written an erotic autobiography of a high-school
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the crucial experiment took place. Twenty-five hundred households in Velizy were equipped with electronic decoders that would enable them 26-04-2012 21:45 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 9 de 22 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/8.html to use approximately twenty different services on their home television
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disclosures with each other online, form equally intense friendships offline, and when the inevitable conflict occurs, it is sharp and 26-04-2012 21:45 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 17 de 22 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/8.html schismatic, spawning splinter subgroups. I met with Dave Winder
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a central BBS and information database. Students of CMC are fortunate that social scientist Annenberg School of Communications, "Rural Grassroots 26-04-2012 21:46 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 7 de 36 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/9.html Telecommunications," reflects the most important aspects of BST: it
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private gathering called the Hackers' Conference. Baxter reported that he had been informed that the Hackers' Conference was an 26-04-2012 21:46 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 15 de 36 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/9.html underground organization of computer outlaws that was probably part of
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of electronic mailing lists and grassroots computer networks began to spread through the scientific and scholarly parts of the ecoactivist 26-04-2012 21:46 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 23 de 36 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/9.html grapevine through the late 1980s. Just as virtual communities
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to supporting dispute mediation and nonviolent conflict resolution, joined IGC. IGC worked with local partners to establish sister networks in 26-04-2012 21:46 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 26 de 36 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/9.html Sweden, Canada, Brazil, Nicaragua, and Australia. Eventually, GlasNet in
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PEN enthusiast Michele Wittig, a psychology professor, proposed forming a group to directly address the homelessness issue. Existing social service 26-04-2012 21:46 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 29 de 36 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/9.html providers weren't happy with the prospect of this new
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the hyper-realist critiques, because so many are abstract and theoretical, based on little or no direct knowledge of technology 26-04-2012 21:46 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 7 de 26 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/10.html itself. Nevertheless, this perspective does capture something about the
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. . . . In a plebiscitary system, the views of the majority . . . swamp minority or unpopular views. Plebiscitism is compatible with authoritarian 26-04-2012 21:46 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 13 de 26 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/10.html politics carried out under the guise of, or with the
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-empowering technology. As Langdon Winner (an author every computer revolutionary ought to read) put it in his essay "Mythinformation," 26-04-2012 21:46 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 14 de 26 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/10.html Of all the computer enthusiasts' political ideas, there is none
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enables one-room schoolhouses in Montana to communicate with MIT professors, and enables overseas Chinese dissidents to disseminate news and 26-04-2012 21:46 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 18 de 26 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/10.html organize resistance. The power to compile highly specific dossiers
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principles, it is possible to demonstrate that a particular encryption scheme is inherently strong enough to survive brute-force mathematical 26-04-2012 21:46 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 22 de 26 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/10.html assault by powerful supercomputers. Public-key encryption as it
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and social effects of previous communications technologies that raise disturbing resonances with the nature of CMC technologies. The Hyper-realists 26-04-2012 21:46 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 23 de 26 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/10.html Hyper-realists see the use of communications technologies as
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understand the limits, even as we continue to explore the technologies' positive capabilities. Failing to fall under the spell of 26-04-2012 21:46 howard rheingold's | the virtual community http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/10.html the "rhetoric of the technological sublime," actively questioning and examining social assumptions about
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, University of Maryland). Smith, M.A. (1992). Voices from the WELL: The Logic of the Virtual Commons. (MA thesis, University of California, Los Angeles). Howard Rheingold's Home Page | The Brainstorms Community MIT Press has just published a new edition of Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011
Author photograph © Justin Hall Howard Rheingold is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the social implications of technology. Over the past twenty years he has traveled around the world,
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and CEOs, to parents and Pentagon generals.” Paul Saffo, Director, Institute for the Future “To track where technology bends society, I’ve learned to follow Howard Rheingold. He always leads a grand tour, and this time is no different. In this book, he takes you to the edge of the global brain
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. Smart Mobs is Rheingold’s greatest achievement.” Douglas Rushkoff, author of Coercion, Media Virus, and Nothing Sacred, Professor, New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program “Howard Rheingold has always been about ten years ahead of the rest of us, but Smart Mobs may be his most visionary book yet. Anyone interested in
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unexpected and fascinating implications for all of us.” David Weinberger, author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto “I congratulate Howard Rheingold on his very thorough summary of one of the greatest transformations of human society—perhaps even more profound than the development of writing.” Sir Arthur
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C. Clarke SMART MOBS The Next Social Revolution HOWARD RHEINGOLD To Hannah Geraldine Rheingold, my mother and teacher, who gave me permission to color outside the lines: Thank you, Mom. Many of the designations used
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in this book, and where Perseus Publishing was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial capital letters. Copyright © 2002 by Howard Rheingold All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means
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-point New Caledonia by the Perseus Books Group EBA 06 07 08 09 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 ALSO BY HOWARD RHEINGOLD The Virtual Community Tools for Thought They Have a Word for It Virtual Reality Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (coauthor) Higher Creativity (coauthor) Excursions
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September 2000, <http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38921,00.html> (28 January 2002). 3. Howard Rheingold, Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985). 4. Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993). 5. Arturo Bariuad
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Find Each Other with ‘Lovegety,’” CNN.com, 7 June 1998, <http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9806/07/fringe/japan.lovegety/> (26 January 2002). 8. Howard Rheingold, “You Got the Power,” Wired 8.08, August 2000, <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/comcomp.html> (29 March 2002). 9. See: eBay
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). 4. “Mad Wing Cyber Girl Gang Arrested,” Japan Today, 8 August 2001, <http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&id=51700> (22 January 2002). 5. Howard Rheingold, Virtual Reality (New York: Summit, 1991). 6. Mizuko Ito, “Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth, and the Re-placement of Social Contact,” Society for the Social Studies
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Drive Wireless Internet Forward,” 26 June 2000, <http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905355866&rel=true> (28 December 2001). 49. Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993). 50. Kasasniemi and Rautianen, “Mobile Culture of Children and Teenagers in Finland
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Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. Ernest C. Mossner (New York: Viking, 1986). 1. Netscan, <http://netscan.research.microsoft.com >(5 February 2002). 2. Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993). 3. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Garden City
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. Saltzer, D. P. Reed, and D. D. Clark, “End-to-End Arguments in System Design,” ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 2 (November 1984): 277288. 47. Howard Rheingold, Tools for Thought (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000). 48. Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (New York
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Computer for the 21st Century,” Scientific American, September 1991, p. 94—104. http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/Sci-AmDraft3.html . 2 February 2002. 1. Howard Rheingold, Tools for Thought (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985). 2. Joel Garreau, “You Are So Here,” Washington Post, 19 August 2001: C01, <http://www.washingtonpost.com
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Trojan Room Coffee Machine,” <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html> (22 January 2002). 11. Weiser, “The Computer for the 21st Century.” 12. Howard Rheingold, Virtual Reality (New York: Summit, 1991). 13. Myron Krueger, Artificial Reality (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1983). 14. Myron Krueger, “Responsive Environments,” NCC Proceedings, 1977, 422433
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and Concepts,” Cam-world. com, December 2001, <http://www.camworld.com/essays/communities.html > (9 February 2002). 3. Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993). 4. Howard Rheingold, “Virtual Communities,” Whole Earth Review 61 (Winter 1988): 14. 5. David Goldberg et al., “Using Collaborative Filtering to
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?tag=tp_pr > (11 October 2001). 48. RF Radiation and Electromagnetic Field Safety, <http://www.arrl.org/news/rfsafety/hbkrf.html > (29 March 2002). 49. Howard Rheingold, Tools for Thought (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985), <http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/index.html > (23 February 2002). 50
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. Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993). 51. Dave Hughes, telephone interview by author, January 2002. 52. Lawrence Lessig,
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Mobile Technologies,” in Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, and Public Performance, ed. by Mark Aakhus and James Katz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). 3. Howard Rheingold, “Look Who’s Talking,” Wired 7.01, January 1999, <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/amish.html > (18 March 2002). 4. Jane Wakefield
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Cognitive Technology, ed. M. Benyon, C. Nehaniv, and K. Dautenhahn (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001), 17. 74. Ibid., 17. 75. Ibid., 20. 76. Ibid., 24. 77. Howard Rheingold, Tools for Thought (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985). 78. Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think,” Atlantic Monthly, July 1945. 79. Rheingold, Tools for Thought. 80
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
by Stephen Laberge, Phd and Howard Rheingold · 8 Feb 2015
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. & Howard Rheingold BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK LaBerge & H. Rheingold, (1990). Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-37410-X Contents The World
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experiences and discoveries, and requesting more practical information about lucid dreaming. In response to those requests, I decided to collaborate on a new book with Howard Rheingold. Howard has written extensively on topics such as creativity, consciousness, and dreamwork. Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming is a self-teaching curriculum, a step
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research on the nature and potentials of consciousness and to apply the results of this research to the enhancement of human health and well-being. Howard Rheingold is the author of Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind and the coauthor of Higher Creativity and The Cognitive Connection. He currently resides
They Have a Word for It A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases-Sarabande Books (2000)
by Howard Rheingold · 10 Mar 2020
words and phrases for which there arc no cquiva. . lcnts in English. From th e North Pole to New Guinea, from Ea5ter Island to libet, Howard Rheingold explores more than forty familiar and obscure languages to d iscover genuinely usefu l (rather than simply odd) words that can open up new ways
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practical assistance in ,nalting your drea,ns ,ool'k. Sarahande ~ Books Re fe re nce/ Humor/ Language THEY HAVE A WORD FOR IT ~ ALSO BY HOWARD RHEINGOLD Talking Tech: A Conversational Guide to Science and Technology with Howard Levine, 1982 The New Technology Coluring Book with Rita Aero and Scott Bartlett Higher
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/,e Earth Catalog, 1994 ___ave a for It A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases HOWARD RHEING01D Sarabande [stl Books LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY Copyright© 1988 by Howard Rheingold This edition 2000 All rights reserved Reprinted by arrangement with Jeremy Tarcher / Putnam, a member of Penguin/Putnam Inc. No part of this book may
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, 1966), 109 zalatwic (native source), 230 zanshin (Farkas and Corcoran; Harrison; Sakai), 156 Zeitgeist (native source), 23 Zivilcourage (Anderson), 216 Zwischenraum (Bohannan), 251 THE AUTHOR ~ Howard Rheingold has written a number of works exhibiting his interest in the human mind, co-authoring such books as Higher Creativity and The Cognitive Connections. More
Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
by Howard Rheingold · 14 May 2000 · 352pp · 120,202 words
Tools For Thought by Howard Rheingold April, 2000: a revised edition of Tools for Thought is available from MIT Press, including a revised chapter with 1999 interviews of Doug Engelbart, Bob
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Smith, Bob Taylor, David Rodman, and Gloria Warner. And thanks to Alan Turner, who originally prepared my words for web publication. Tools for Thought ©1985 howard rheingold, all rights reserved worldwide. Chapter One: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet South of San Francisco and north of Silicon Valley, near the place
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner · 31 Aug 2006 · 339pp · 57,031 words
Hafner, Paul Hawken, Alan Kay, Kevin Kelly, Art Kleiner, Butler Lampson, Liza Loop, John Markoff, Jane Metcalfe, David Millen, Nancy Murphy, Richard Raymond, Danica Remy, Howard Rheingold, Louis Rossetto, Peter Schwartz, Mark Stahlman, Gerd Stern, Shirley Streshinsky, Larry Tesler, Paul Tough, Jim Warren, and Gail Williams. Most of all, I thank Stewart
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, the Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link, or the WELL. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, Brand and other members of the network, including Kevin Kelly, Howard Rheingold, Esther Dyson, and John Perry Barlow, became some of the most-quoted spokespeople for a countercultural vision of the Internet. In 1993 all would help
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media into emblems of network members’ own, shared ways of living, and evidence of their individual credibility. Again and again, Brand, and later Kevin Kelly, Howard Rheingold, John Perry Barlow, and others, gave voice to the techno-social visions that emerged in these discussions. As they did, they were welcomed into the
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economic exchange into the lives of WELL members. Ultimately, thanks to the work of the many journalists on the system, and particularly the writings of Howard Rheingold and John Perry Barlow, virtual community and electronic frontier became key frames through which Americans would seek to understand the nature of the emerging public
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, as for the many other information professionals on the WELL, the system offered access to information and expertise that could be transformed into income elsewhere. Howard Rheingold, for instance, had been a freelance journalist and author for a half dozen years before he joined the WELL. He found that the WELL extended
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Ziff-Davis publication, Computer Life.36 This pattern was common on the WELL. Online contributions in social and special-interest conferences led to work for Howard Rheingold, for his equally well-known colleague on the WELL, John Perry Barlow, and in later years for many others. Nonjournalists benefited in the same way
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t y o n t h e W E L L [ 157 ] the “gift economy” and the notion of a community of linked minds. As Howard Rheingold explained it, the WELL’s gift economy consisted of the constant exchange of potentially valuable information without expectation of immediate reward.42 Individuals contributed information
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way through the complex currents of the increasingly mainstream network economy. Exporting the Virtual Community Frame Not long after that vision emerged on the WELL, Howard Rheingold transported it into wider regions of public discourse. In 1987, in a brief article for the Whole Earth Review, successor to the by-then-defunct
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communion, members of the corporate sector thought such networks might bring isolated, postindustrial consumers into a state of postmodern economic communion. As several writers, including Howard Rheingold, have noted, online communities have struggled, in part because they lack the local roots and strongly intertwined networks of the early WELL. Rheingold himself ultimately
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phrasing. He also had a journalist’s shrewdness, an off-the-wall, self-deprecating wit, and a phenomenal wealth of simple personal charm.”71 Like Howard Rheingold, Barlow contributed to the system in multiple ways, often simultaneously. He engaged in furious and funny debates about the nature of intellectual property, told personal
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many participants who could not have been described as hackers but who had been longtime, high-visibility participants on the WELL. These included Stewart Brand, Howard Rheingold, Kevin Kelly, and John Perry Barlow. Tough later recalled that he chose these participants in part for the fact that they had participated in debates
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writers who had first appeared on the WELL or in connection with either the Hackers’ Conference or the Software Catalog, such as Steven Levy and Howard Rheingold. As Kelly began to travel in the Bay area’s digital circles, and especially as he and other Whole Earth regulars became interested in the
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felt as though they part of the magazine.20 And many were. Almost immediately, some of the WELL’s most prominent members, including Stewart Brand, Howard Rheingold, and John Perry Barlow, began writing for Wired. To Rossetto and Metcalfe this made sense, since they saw WELL users as living the sort of
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the conversations there exciting, and he hoped to spark a similar use of the WELL. 5. No formal accounting of early WELL membership exists today. Howard Rheingold estimates that some 600 people were using the WELL when he joined in the summer of 1985. “Slice of My Life in My Virtual Community
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, “Money,” in Brand, Last Whole Earth Catalog, 438. 33. Basch, “Living on the Net.” 34. Rheingold, “Slice of My Life in My Virtual Community,” 425; Howard Rheingold, “Da WELL Been Beddy, Beddy Goot to Me,” post 6, December 7, 1989. 35. humdog, “Pandora’s Vox,” 438 –39; Coate, “Cyberspace Innkeeping.” Marc Smith
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people—approximately 1 percent of the overall membership. See Smith, “Voices from the WELL,” 29. 36. Coate, “Cyberspace Innkeeping”; Basch, interview, August 8, 2004. 37. Howard Rheingold, interview, July 20, 2001; John Perry Barlow, interview, August 25, 2003; John Coate, interview, August 25, 2003. 38. Stark, “Ambiguous Assets for Uncertain Environments,” 71
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II Evolutionary Biology: Ergonomics, Semiotics, and the Sociobiology of Communication Systems.” Philosophical Forum 13, nos. 2 –3 (1981– 82): 244 –78. Harman, Willis W., and Howard Rheingold. Higher Creativity: Liberating the Unconscious for Breakthrough Insights. Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, 1984. Harries-Jones, Peter. A Recursive Vision: Ecological Understanding and Gregory Bateson
Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
by Adam Fisher · 9 Jul 2018 · 611pp · 188,732 words
: Alan Kay was one of my big mentors, and suddenly Alan was chief scientist of Atari, this billion-dollar company that came out of nowhere. Howard Rheingold: At Xerox PARC, Alan Kay had sort of been the kid to Bob Taylor, and now Atari was sort of the next generation. Alan Kay
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, and Aerospace Seattle’s office in Paris. Kevin Kelly: This was the dawn of bulletin board systems. Larry Brilliant: There was no e-mail, remember. Howard Rheingold: On a BBS, there was one thread, and you had to wait for the person who was online to get off-line so that you
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was ever articulated or not, what Whole Earth was doing was trying to make it work in terms of governance, best practices, cultural nudges, pricing… Howard Rheingold: Part of it was not trying to shape it, enabling the shape to emerge. Letting the people there make whatever it was. Kevin Kelly: One
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Brilliant: Ram Dass was on The Well. Wavy Gravy was on The Well. All the Seva people started using The Well. It was pretty cute. Howard Rheingold: Stewart Brand brought together the environmental network, the people who were interested in community, self-sufficiency, communes, personal computers, tools. So it was really the
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that wasn’t even live gave us the greatest feeling of live-ness! It felt more live than any VR stuff we could possibly do. Howard Rheingold: And it was all just words on a screen! R. U. Sirius: These were just text-based bulletin boards, but in many ways they were
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you read about. San Francisco had had such a scene since the nineteenth century. And here it came direct to your home at your fingertips. Howard Rheingold: It was like there was a party happening in the walls of your house. You know, people were talking about serious things and exchanging knowledge
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completely new to us. And each one we had to address, and we were spending days and nights and evenings trying to manage these things. Howard Rheingold: The Well had a policy that people should be who they are. And so you had to use a credit card, or otherwise go to
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not good. Stewart Brand: So, The Well kind of grew and got a life of its own and established a certain amount of online practice. Howard Rheingold: There was kind of a social policy: “You own your own words” was mostly about people had to get permission if they were going to
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we’ve now come to see as a marked characteristic of this time emerged then, and we were dealing with it for the first time. Howard Rheingold: And in some ways it was a forecast of not just the best of what online community could offer but also the worst. You know
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just getting trolled. He was getting pounded and harassed. And it was no fun and so he thought, No fun? I’m out of here. Howard Rheingold: Stewart got irritated, and who can blame him? He created the place. A lot of antiauthoritarianism was projected on Stewart because he was Stewart. Stewart
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Brand: There was a classic kind of gang-up thing that one continues to see, occasionally. And I just bailed at that point. Howard Rheingold: It’s very difficult to get thrown out of The Well, especially for being an asshole. They have to argue about it for months. A
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. But you can really trace back a lot of the origins of this new movement to The Well. A lot of the folks were there. Howard Rheingold: I remember I got a friend request on Facebook early from Steve Case and I said, “I know who you are. But why do you
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the beginning.” So I think, yes, it did influence things. Larry Brilliant: Steve Jobs was on it—Steve had a fake name and he lurked. Howard Rheingold: Steve Jobs, Steve Case, Craig Newmark: They would all say that they were informed by their experiences on The Well. Fabrice Florin: The Well was
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I just felt that of those options the laziest was the one I chose. Young Harvill: Anyway, he was just coming off finishing this game. Howard Rheingold: There was the personal computer, and video games were a big cultural splash. And so at the time people were beginning to ask, “What’s
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working on these bodysuits instrumenting the whole body. David Levitt: People, of course, like new technology and they quickly said, “What are the sexual possibilities?” Howard Rheingold: A lot of it was, “Okay, we’re going to have sex at a distance through computers somehow.” David Levitt: The term teledildonics quickly became
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common. Howard Rheingold: I got so much weird attention for that one word. There were, I’ll tell you, journalists from all over the world wanted to talk
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form Netscape. The mission was to rebuild and reimagine the NCSA Mosaic browser—they were going to drag the web out of its ivory tower. Howard Rheingold: Jim Clark is sort of like who Bob Taylor was to Doug Engelbart. He found this guy who had an idea and really made it
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Geneva. That was the first mention of the web in our magazine. But not the last. Then it became something we were paying attention to. Howard Rheingold: And so Louis thought, Okay—let’s create a web-based cultural publication that we’ll make money on. One of Louis’s admirable traits
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given how it is used today. The problem came about when cookies enabled tracking essentially by combining multiple technologies together to create a tracking technology. Howard Rheingold: So one of the things that we did do at HotWired was to use forms, which had just become available, and cookies, which had just
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were putting together this HotWired division, Jonathan pulled together a lot of people he really respected from the digital world and from the BBS world, Howard Rheingold being one of those, Justin Hall being one of these. All of them were, like me, freaks. John Battelle: Weird furry hacker freaks pushing the
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. Jane Metcalfe: Justin was a bona fide internet personality. Joey Anuff: Justin’s links.net was a bigger hit probably than anything HotWired ever published. Howard Rheingold: Julie Petersen was the one who found Justin. She said, “Hey, I know you wanted to have a nineteen-year-old around. There’s this
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God. I think it’s going to be okay. I’m going to fit in with these people. These are my people. I get it! Howard Rheingold: When Justin joined, we went downstairs. There was an interesting guy who had a little magazine called Might, Dave Eggers. Jack Boulware: South Park was
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Oh, there’s the guys from Might magazine having a Gen-X rap session about something, and then the Wired people would start floating in. Howard Rheingold: He had this little magazine, this little storefront down there. So we smoked a joint down there and went back into the office and all
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who was—I’m trying to summon my best Louis impression here—like, “We’re on a rocket ship to design expertise and content curation!” Howard Rheingold: Louis absolutely wanted to be Hugh Hefner, Jann Wenner, Helen Gurley Brown, the dictator of what culture is. Not, as he put it, “the bozo
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. Brian Behlendorf: And it became personal for a lot of people. Gary Wolf: And a kind of war broke out between him and his staff. Howard Rheingold: So I quit. And Jonathan Steuer quit. And a few other people did as well. Justin Hall: I said, “Well, I disagree, but whatever. I
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the first blog. It was like a phase change. The Sucksters (writing in Suck): Opinions are like assholes, sure: just make sure yours smells sweeter. Howard Rheingold: The beginnings of internet meme culture came from Suck. Louis Rossetto: And we were amazed that this was happening under our own noses—and we
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they are like, “No. We have to have at least…” It was just constant pressure and arguments. I mostly remember being beleaguered by that scene. Howard Rheingold: Cyberthon happened because the Whole Earth Review wanted to have an event around virtual reality. There was no money, and we wanted to have all
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. Raskin’s minimalist computer designs were then rejected in favor of a computer powerful enough to drive a modern graphics display. Raskin died in 2005. Howard Rheingold is the author of a short shelf of books about the history and culture of Silicon Valley, including 1985’s Tools for Thought, a look
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fighter pilot might use, and he spoke in a monotone, like a computer-generated voice trying to emulate the narrator in an old movie newsreel. Howard Rheingold, a cyberculture guru and chronicler, later said that he looked like “the Chuck Yeager of the computer cosmos, calmly putting the new system through its
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. That made it both an addictive experience and a fascinating social experiment. Whole books were written about it, including ones by the influential tech chroniclers Howard Rheingold and Katie Hafner. “Just being on The Well, talking with people you might not consider befriending in any other context, was its own seduction,” Hafner
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of times over by seeding a new economy and an era of economic growth. Tim Berners-Lee (1955– ). Marc Andreessen (1971– ). Justin Hall (1974– ) and Howard Rheingold (1947– ) in 1995. CHAPTER ELEVEN THE WEB There was a limit to how popular the Internet could be, at least among ordinary computer users, even
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Francisco. Wired magazine, under its charismatic editor Louis Rossetto, was in the process of creating one of the first magazine websites. Its executive editor was Howard Rheingold, an insightful online sage who had just published The Virtual Community, which described the social mores and satisfactions that came from “homesteading on the electronic
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on the web, we reject the role of passive media marketing recipient,” he wrote. “If we all have a place to post our pages—the Howard Rheingold channel, the Rising City High School channel—there’s no way the web will end up as banal and mediocre as television. There will be
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Gates, Al Gore, Andy Grove, Justin Hall, Bill Joy, Jim Kimsey, Leonard Kleinrock, Tracy Licklider, Liza Loop, David McQueeney, Gordon Moore, John Negroponte, Larry Page, Howard Rheingold, Larry Roberts, Arthur Rock, Virginia Rometty, Ben Rosen, Steve Russell, Eric Schmidt, Bob Taylor, Paul Terrell, Jimmy Wales, Evan Williams, and Steve Wozniak. I’m
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History of Computing, Apr. 1984; David Ritchie, The Computer Pioneers (Simon & Schuster, 1986); Bill Mauchly and others, “The ENIAC” website, http://the-eniac.com/first/; Howard Rheingold, Tools for Thought (MIT, 2000); Joel Shurkin, Engines of the Mind: A History of the Computer (Washington Square Press, 1984). 39. John Costello, “The Twig
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oral history, Stanford, interview 1, Dec. 19, 1986. 29. The quote is from Nilo Lindgren, “Toward the Decentralized Intellectual Workshop,” Innovation, Sept. 1971, quoted in Howard Rheingold, Tools for Thought (MIT, 2000), 178. See also Steven Levy, Insanely Great (Viking, 1994), 36. 30. Douglas Engelbart oral history, Stanford, interview 3, Mar. 4
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Kay, “The Center of Why,” Kyoto Prize lecture, Nov. 11, 2004. 48. Author’s interview with Alan Kay; Ivan Sutherland, “Sketchpad,” PhD dissertation, MIT, 1963; Howard Rheingold, “Inventing the Future with Alan Kay,” The WELL, http://www.well.com/user/hlr/texts/Alan%20Kay. 49. Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning, 1895; author’s
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, Wired, Dec. 20, 2007. 6. Katie Hafner, The Well (Carroll & Graf, 2001), 10. 7. Hafner, The Well, 30; Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, 145. 8. Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community (Perseus, 1993), 9. 9. Tom Mandel, “Confessions of a Cyberholic,” Time, Mar. 1, 1995. At that point, Mandel knew he was dying
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.net/vita/web/story.html. 57. Author’s interviews with Justin Hall, Joan Hall. 58. Author’s interview with Howard Rheingold; Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community (Perseus, 1993). 59. Author’s interviews with Justin Hall, Howard Rheingold; Gary Wolf, Wired—A Romance (Random House, 2003), 110. 60. Scott Rosenberg, Say Everything (Crown, 2009), 24. 61. Rosenberg
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, Say Everything, 44. 62. Justin Hall, “Exposing Myself,” posted by Howard Rheingold, http://www.well.com/~hlr/jam/justin/justinexposing.html. 63. Author’s interview with Arianna Huffington. 64. Clive Thompson, Smarter Than You Think (Penguin, 2013
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in Austin by plane, fresh out of cyberspace. Several of the fifty attendees would go on and shape the emerging debate, including the colorful author Howard Rheingold and science fiction legend Bruce Sterling, best known for Mirrorshades, an anthology that defined the cyberpunk genre. John Perry Barlow was one of the first
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best sellers for several years. Tightly coupling man and machine, of course, retained a nearly irresistible appeal. The most bizarre articulation of cyberspace must be Howard Rheingold’s vision of teledildonics. After hearing Stenger’s wild presentation in Austin, Rheingold articulated his own vision of future sex in the summer of 1990
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1990. Of note in this photo are John Perry Barlow (tall in the first row); to Barlow’s left, Sandy Stone; to Barlow’s right, Howard Rheingold, and then gaming theorist Brenda Laurel, followed by Michael and Amelie Benedikt. Behind the Benedikts stands Nicole Stenger, and behind her are Habitat pioneers Chip
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held up by cryptography. One of the most persistent topics of human-machine interaction in cyberspace was sex. In the summer of 1990, colorful writer Howard Rheingold coined the memorable term “teledildonics” to describe futuristic forms of bodily interaction through machine interfaces. Mondo 2000’s guide to cyberpunk, laced with irony. Former
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Stand Up?” in Cyberspace: First Steps, ed. Michael Benedikt (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991), 109. 111.Morningstar and Farmer, interview, April 24, 2014. 112.Ibid. 113.Howard Rheingold, “Teledildonics: Reach Out and Touch Someone,” Mondo 2000 2 (Summer 1990): 52–54. 114.John Perry Barlow, Lee Felsenstein, and Clifford Stoll, “Is Computer Hacking
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