Howard Rheingold

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Official site of Howard Rheingold: writing, art, videos, and updates. Author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs; pioneer of virtual communities.

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The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker (1985)

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Harry Truman was President and Sputnik was a word that only Russian language experts knew when Doug Engelbart first thought about displaying words and images on radar screens, storing them in computers, and manipulating them with levers and buttons and keyboards. For over thirty years, Engelbart has been trying to…