Howard Rheingold Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, People, Lines

• Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

  Howard Rheingold

  Machines, Language, Computer

  Source: medium.com

• In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that what's missing from telephones and computer interfaces is this ability to move around in three-space.

  Howard Rheingold

  Moving, Japan, Space

  Source: medium.com

• I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.

  Howard Rheingold

  Taken, Thinking, Talking

  Source: scottlondon.com

• Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

  Howard Rheingold

  Eight, Talking, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

• The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.

  Howard Rheingold

  Together, Different, Television

  Source: scottlondon.com

• It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

  Howard Rheingold

  Writing, People, Computer

• Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

  Howard Rheingold

  Teenager, People, Want

  The Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. June 15, 1995.

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