I think the one thing humans are is language wizards. Howard Rheingold More Quotes by Howard Rheingold More Quotes From Howard Rheingold 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. Howard Rheingold smart two thinking There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort grew up at the same time that television and popular music grew up, so that we had this carrier frequency that we all tuned into that gave us the feeling of a common culture, even though I was in Phoenix and someone was in Des Moines. That now we are getting the global cohort at the same time we have our first global communications. MTV is everywhere. Howard Rheingold teenager communication baby A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.' Howard Rheingold kind games firsts I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does. Howard Rheingold doe world years Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control. Howard Rheingold participation surveillance openness You know back when there were light shows, there was this thing for people to sync into together. And the more people got synced into it, the more sync started happening. I guess it's just the size of the venue, and traveling around and so forth that it doesn't happen anymore. I don't know why. Howard Rheingold light together people 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. Howard Rheingold internet-access cnn people Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. Howard Rheingold humans civilization years If 80,000,000 polygons per second is reality, what happens to you when you live in a world 160,000,000? Howard Rheingold happens reality world The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it, and you can adjust the weights so that it learns. You teach it through trials. Howard Rheingold algorithms technology trials We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do. Howard Rheingold creating-things environment design In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that what's missing from telephones and computer interfaces is this ability to move around in three-space. Howard Rheingold japan space moving There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside the arteries. You could see a social reaction in which people would want to regulate this technology because they are threatened by it, and thereby cause a lot of harm. There are several scenarios that are happening at once. The other scenario is that the Japanese are going for this in a big way. Howard Rheingold communication technology eye There may be a jump on electronic LSD with virtual reality, and the problem just with saying LSD, enough time has gone by that there is no distinction between psychedelics and other drugs. Howard Rheingold enough-time drug reality We are taught what reality is in all kinds of ways. Howard Rheingold taught reality way My mission is to try to get a lot more global view. Howard Rheingold missions views trying What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that. Howard Rheingold communication games sex I think that most people really do need the sort of community you find in an office. Most people are always going to go into an office. If you are a member of a working group and you are not there physically, decisions are made without you. Howard Rheingold office people thinking Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media. Howard Rheingold media roots talking We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it. Howard Rheingold issues believe ideas
