“If the rule of thumb for attention literacy is to pay attention to your intention, then the heuristic for crap detection is to make skepticism your default.”
― Howard Rheingold
"Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping."
― Howard Rheingold
"Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually."
― Howard Rheingold
"Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues."
― Howard Rheingold
"Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention."
― Howard Rheingold
"We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter."
― Howard Rheingold
"Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control."
― Howard Rheingold
"Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk."
― Howard Rheingold