Howard rheingold

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us.

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.