Mamie Rheingold: You may know Howard Rheingold as a colorful and prescient anthropologist who defined concepts like virtual communities and smart mobs before we were all participating
Mamie: Okay, so over the last 20 years you've written 'Tools for Thought', 'Virtual Communities Virtual Realities', 'Smart Mobs' why 'Net Smart'?
Mamie: So I know when you wrote Tools for Thought, you were inspired by Doug Engelbart's 1962 Augmenting Human Intellect.
Mamie: Great so you mentioned that literacy.
Mamie: And so why is attention the fundamental literacy for and always on the world?
Mamie: Hmm And now, so in 2010 Eric Schmidt had this crazy statistic that every two days humans produce as much information as they did between
Mamie: And you've coined terms like virtual communities and smart mobs.
Mamie: Yeah Howard: But I think, in particular, for us, for people in this room.
Mamie: So attention can be trained?
Mamie: Hmm. So I know that you turn to Dana Voight often.
Mamie: And because you brought up search, I just want, one question I want this audience to think about is it our responsibility not only to give people answers but to teach them
Mamie: Hmm, so there is a theme throughout the book that a firm grasp of these literacies will allow you to multiply the value of a public good, while also serving your own self-interest.
Mamie: So moving onto the next literacy, I want to know how your thoughts about collaboration changed and evolved since Smart Mobs.
.Mamie: Hmm Howard: It was very exciting to me that I could sit in my room which I'd been doing with a typewriter for years and communicate with other people and share knowledge with
Mamie: So jumping ahead to the last literacy.
Mamie: So before we turn it over to Googlers.
Mamie: and we have a microphone so I want to invite you guys to ask questions.
Mamie: Cool. I think we are out of time.
I thought of Mami and Papi crying over my coffin.
the power of Mamie Till, who insisted that her son be put in an open casket, so that the world may bear witness
Pero estamos en modo mamitis y en todo, no.
My name is Mamie, I've been a Googler since May 2006 so coming up on six years.
Of course when Mamie first started using search engines, Google didn't exist it was AltaVista and Infoseek.
So I told Mamie about WHOis.
Remember the talking paperclip— Mamie: Clippy Howard: It's tremendously annoying.
I was always quick to tell Mami , Mami , no me siento bien, I'm not feeling well, and so that she could cook me a beautiful soup, one of her stews,
Yo quería hacerle una pregunta a la mami .
Hay uno que se marcha la mamilla a las 5:00.
And there's slightly different definitions— Mamie: Yeah.
Yo le decía, mami , pues yo había tenido que ser muy mala en la otra vida porque, vamos, esto no es normal lo que estoy pasando
My god, Mamiya. I used to have this digital Mamiya medium format camera, a beautiful thing--
And then I had a beautiful medium format Mamiya digital.
use more effectively. Mamie: So once we are aware of what information we are paying attention to, we need to validate and verify and filter that information.
And there is an author here so when Mamie said, "Well how do I know what's true and what's not?" I said, "Well you know, this is, you happen to come along at a very unusual time.
So tell us more about that— Howard: I was— Mamie: What does that mean?
to do now. Mamie: So what are the different forms of participation?
I usually need to explain this to people— Mamie: Not this one, yes.
Howard: Yeah. Mamie: What does it mean to be a networked individual and why are networks important?
Pues, dije, mami , tienes toda la razón.
rap, papi I can't contain myself, mami what are you doing to me I'm not lying to you There's not a detail
But the best way to do it is to try to fly and if you can fly you're pretty much assured— Mamie: That you're dreaming.
This is my only baby.” What you got to say, Mamie Till, to the world?
Además, es que ellos ven las piernas, ven el torni, que además me dice ayer, por ejemplo, mami , la venda del torni.
Me acuerdo de que a mi madre, la pobre, que siempre ha estado a mi lado, le decía, mami -- porque habíamos estado en la India--
President Dwight D. Eisenhower himself once christened me "The Ice Cream Queen of America." I have the signed photograph of us, in fact, with Mamie,