We like technology because we don't have to talk to anybody.
From Howard Rheingold
I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.
We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s.
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
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.
There is an elementary level of trust that is necessary for community. You have to be able to trust that your neighbors aren't going to look into your mailbox.
The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.
On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
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