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.
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.
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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.
And there's slightly different definitions— Mamie : Yeah.
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?"
So tell us more about that— Howard: I was— Mamie : What does that mean?
Mamie : So what are the different forms of participation?
I usually need to explain this to people— Mamie : Not this one, yes.
Mamie : What does it mean to be a networked individual and why are networks important?
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.
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