Howard Rheingold at the Ars Electronica in 2004

Howard Rheingold (born July 7, 1947) is a leading thinker and writer on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communications media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing). Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 705 KB) and , selfmade File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 705 KB) and , selfmade File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Cellular redirects here. ... A virtual community or online community is a group of people that primarily or initially communicates or interacts via the Internet. ...

Biography

Rheingold was born to Geraldine and Nathan Rheingold in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, from 1964 to 1968. His senior thesis was entitled "What Life Can Compare with This? Sitting Alone at the Window, I Watch the Flowers Bloom, the Leaves Fall, the Seasons Come and Go." Nickname: Valley of the Sun Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area    - City 1,230. ... Reed College is a liberal arts college with 1350 students as of the autumn of 2005 (45% men and 55% women), located in Portland, Oregon in the Eastmoreland neighborhood. ... Nickname: City of Roses, Stumptown, Bridgetown, PDX Location in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: Country United States State Oregon County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Mayor Tom Potter Area    - City 376. ...

A lifelong fascination with mind altering and its methods led Rheingold to the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Xerox PARC. There he worked on and wrote about the earliest personal computers. This led to his writing Tools for Thought in 1985, a history of the people behind the personal computer. Around that time he first logged on to The WELL - an influential early online community. He explored the experience in his seminal book, The Virtual Community. Founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the Institute of Noetic Sciences explores the frontiers of consciousness through rigorous scientific research, bridges science and spirit, and seeks to support a fundamental shift in human consciousness to create a world grounded in freedom, wisdom and love. ... Bold text // Headline text Link title This article is about the computer research center. ... Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology is a work of retrospective futurism in which Smart Mobs author Howard Rheingold looked at the history of computing and then attempted to predict what the networked world might look like in the mid-1990s. ... For the Scottish football team, see Motherwell F.C. The Whole Earth Lectronic Link (or The WELL) is one of the oldest virtual communities still online. ... The Virtual Community is an early book about virtual communities by Howard Rheingold, a member of the early network system The Well. ...

In 1991, Rheingold wrote Virtual Reality: Exploring the Brave New Technologies of Artificial Experience and Interactive Worlds from Cyberspace to Teledildonics. Dildonics are electronic sex toys that can be controlled by a computer. ...

After a stint editing the Whole Earth Review, Rheingold served as editor in chief of the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. Shortly thereafter, he was hired on as founding executive editor of HotWired, one of the first commercial content web sites published in 1994 by Wired magazine. Rheingold left HotWired and soon founded Electric Minds in 1996 to chronicle and promote the growth of community online. Electric Minds, like so many other San Francisco-based Internet startups, quickly depleted its venture-capital funds and stands as one of the most spectacular Internet flame-outs of its era. Despite accolades, the site was sold and scaled back in 1997. Whole Earth Review is the former name of a magazine once known as CoEvolution Quarterly and now known as Whole Earth. ... HotWired was the first commercial web magazine, launched on October 27, 1994. ... A sample of Wired covers. ...

In 2002, Rheingold published Smart Mobs, exploring the potential for technology to augment collective intelligence. Shortly thereafter, in conjunction with the Institute for the Future, Rheingold launched an effort to develop a broad-based literacy of cooperation. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent nonprofit research group. ...

Rheingold lives in Mill Valley, California, with his wife Judy and daughter Maimi. Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States. ...

Partial bibliography

• Talking Tech: A conversational Guide to Science and Technology with Howard Levine (1982)
• Higher Creativity with Willis Harman (1984)
• Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (free in HTML form) (1985)
• Out of the Inner Circle with Bill Landreth (1985)
• They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases (1988)
• The Cognitive Connection: Thought and Language in Man and Machine with Howard Levine (1987)
• Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind (1988)
• Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming with Stephen LaBerge (1990)
• Virtual Reality (1991)
• The Virtual Community (free in HTML form) (1993)
• Millennium Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools and Ideas for the Twenty-First Century (1995)
• The Heart of the WELL (1998)
• Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2003)

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External links

• Howard Rheingold's Web site
• Smart Mobs weblog/book site
• Reed College Alumni Magazine Profile
• A 48MB Quicktime movie of Howard Rheingold and Andrea Saveri outlining the Cooperation Project, licensed under Creative Commons, hosted by the Internet Archive