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Futurism With A Human Touch

Howard Rheingold, author of best-sellers Virtual Reality, The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs, and Net Smart, editor of best-seller The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, takes audiences on a journey through the human side of the technology-shaped future.

He's been in on the Web since the beginning, and long before. He's studied Internet enterprises and started them. Rheingold was the founding Executive Editor of HotWired, the pioneering online publication launched on the World Wide Web by Wired magazine. He was the founder of Electric Minds, named by Time Magazine one of the ten best websites of 1996. He's 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 in group futurism.

his books are published in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish language editions, in addition to distribution in the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Rheingold has taught as appointed lecturer at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. He was a non-resident Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication, visiting professor at De Montfort University, UK, which awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Technology degree. He delivered the invited Regents Lecture for University of California, Berkeley. A few of the groups Rheingold has addressed regarding the social, cultural, political and economic impacts of new technologies to:

Rheingold shows his audiences a real-time, real-life, uncensored glimpse of the new cultures and societies emerging online and on the street. Then he helps them understand the questions about their businesses, personal lives, political freedoms and social values they need to be asking themselves.


Howard Rheingold is represented by Monitor Talent Network:
Meghan Fennell or mel_blake@monitor.com


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