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Howard Rheingold was born on 7 July, 1947 in Phoenix, Arizona, US, is an American critic, writer, and teacher (born 1947). Discover Howard Rheingold's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Occupation Critic · writer · teacher
Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 7 July, 1947
Birthday 7 July
Birthplace Phoenix, Arizona, US
Nationality United States

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1947

Howard Rheingold (born 1947) is an American critic, writer, and teacher, known for his specialties on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities.

Rheingold was born on July 7, 1947, in Phoenix, Arizona.

1968

He graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 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''.

A lifelong fascination with mind augmentation 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.

1985

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.

Also in 1985, Rheingold coauthored Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security with former hacker Bill Landreth.

1991

In 1991, he published Virtual Reality: Exploring the Brave New Technologies of Artificial Experience and Interactive Worlds from Cyberspace to Teledildonics.

After a stint editing the Whole Earth Review, Rheingold served as editor in chief of the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog.

1994

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.

1996

Rheingold left HotWired and soon founded Electric Minds in 1996 to chronicle and promote the growth of community online.

1997

Despite accolades, the site was sold and scaled back in 1997.

1998

In 1998, he created his next virtual community, Brainstorms, which, as of 2024, is a successful private webconferencing community for knowledgeable, intellectual, civil, and future-thinking adults from all over the world.

2002

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.

2008

In 2008, Rheingold became the first research fellow at the Institute for the Future, with which he had long been affiliated.

Rheingold is a visiting lecturer in Stanford University's Department of Communication where he has taught courses such as "Digital Journalism", "Virtual Communities and Social Media", and "Social Media Literacies".

He is a former lecturer in UC Berkeley's School of Information where he taught "Virtual Communities and Social Media" and "Participatory Media/Collective Action".

He has been a frequent contributor to the Connected Learning Alliance blog on topics ranging from new media literacy to learning innovation.

Rheingold lives in Mill Valley, California, with his wife Judy and daughter Mamie.

In an entry on his video blog, he provides a tour of the converted garage that became a "dream office" and an "externalization of [his] mind" where Rheingold absorbs information, writes, and creates art.

He contributed the essay "Participative Pedagogy for a Literacy of Literacies" to the Freesouls book project.