Howard Rheingold Quotes (6 Quotes)

There needs to be more involvement between mainstream media and the digital world. If you don't learn from an editor or a newsroom, where do those values of journalism come from

When it comes to technology, you're in a position of your children having to teach you. How often do kids have any power or authority How often do parents come to them and listen to them But it takes a parent with some courage to admit they don't know and want to learn.

The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power.

SMS was commercially an accident it was not originally seen as a revenue-producing service, but today 100 billion SMS messages are being exchanged every month.

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.

American cell phone operators pitched SMS to 30-year-old executives instead of 15-year-old girls, and this was a mistake.