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Howard Rheingold

Distinguished Fellow

Research Fellow Howard Rheingold fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension in 1981, then plugged his computer into his telephone in 1983 and got sucked into the net. In earlier years, Howard's interest in the powers of the human mind led to Higher Creativity (1984), written with Willis Harman, Talking Tech (1982) and The Cognitive Connection (1986) with Howard Levine, Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind: A Book of Memes (1988), Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (1990), with Stephen LaBerge, and They Have A Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases (1988) .... Howard's 2002 book, Smart Mobs, was acclaimed as a prescient forecast of the always-on era. In 2005, he taught a course at Stanford University on A Literacy of Cooperation, part of a long-term investigation of cooperation and collective action that he has undertaken in partnership with the Institute for the Future ...

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