Difference between revisions of "Howard Rheingold"

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==Xerox PARC and The WELL==
 
==Xerox PARC and The WELL==
His fascination with mind-altering and its methods led him in the early 1980s to the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Xerox PARC, where he had a chance to work on the earliest personal computers. This led to his writing Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (1985), a history of the people behind the development of the personal computer.
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Rheingold's fascination with mind-altering and its methods led him in the early 1980s to the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Xerox PARC, where he had a chance to work on the earliest personal computers. This led to his writing Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (1985), a history of the people behind the development of the personal computer.
  
In 1985 Rheingold joined The WELL, an influential early online community which had just been founded by [[Stewart Brand]] and [[Larry Brilliant]]. He explored that experience in his book The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993). During that period he also wrote and published the book Virtual Reality: Exploring the Brave New Technologies of Artificial Experience and Interactive Worlds from Cyberspace to Teledildonics (1991).
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In 1985 he joined The WELL, an influential early online community which had just been founded by [[Stewart Brand]] and [[Larry Brilliant]]. He explored that experience in his book The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993). During that period he also wrote and published the book Virtual Reality: Exploring the Brave New Technologies of Artificial Experience and Interactive Worlds from Cyberspace to Teledildonics (1991).
  
 
==Whole Earth and HotWired==
 
==Whole Earth and HotWired==

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