Expert
Biography
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Howard
Rheingold
Virtual
Communities & Social Technologies
Expertise:
writing and public speaking on the co-evolution between
society and technology, virtual community building
Industries:
media, software, IT, education, telecommunications
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Howard
Rheingold is an internationally acclaimed thought leader,
writer and public speaker about the social and economic impacts
of new technologies. Credited with inventing the term "virtual
community," he is a participant-observer in the design
of new technologies, a pioneer, critic and forecaster of technology's
impacts, and a speaker who involves his audience in an adventure
through the human side of the technology-shaped future.
In
the early 1990s he founded Howard Rheingold Associates, a
consultancy for virtual community building. He is an internationally
syndicated author of the weekly Tomorrow column, author of
best-sellers Virtual Reality and The Virtual Community, editor
of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. In 2005, he taught
a course at Stanford University on A Literacy
of Cooperation, part of a
long-term investigation of cooperation and collective action
that he has undertaken in partnership with The
Institute for the Future.
His
2002 book, Smart
Mobs, was widely acclaimed as a prescient forecast of
the always-on era. Rheingold was the founding Executive Editor
of HotWired, the pioneering online publication launched by
Wired magazine.
Last
but not least, Rheingold is also an artist. You can see his
painted
shoes here.
"Whole
Earth is a network of experts who
find, evaluate, and share tools and ideas.
Over the past twenty-five years,
we have coevolved a worldwide community
of information hunters and gatherers."
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