Beneath the well-popularized myths of giants like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, computing has fast-moving, highly-technical story involving very many people and places. And in 1984, Howard Rheingold—who had been the embedded writer documenting and communicating the work of the Xerox PARC team as they developed the GUI, Ethernet, and Object Oriented Programming paradigms—saw the very-real possibility of that story going unrecorded, and lost to history. His book Tools for Thought became the definitive work documenting the history of computer development, and was a key resource of mine for creative Silicon and Charybdis. His later books, like The Virtual Community and Virtual Reality, further cemented Howard Rheingold status as the key writer and test-subject for the largest technological shift in history. He was editor of The Whole Earth Catalogue, testified for the ACLU against the 1996 Communications Decency Act, and has continued to write, speak, and produce art highlighting and articulating the pivitol fulcrums of our ongoing planetary transformation.
Get an overview of his major works and life in his succinct autobiography. https://medium.com/@hrheingold/the-past-futures-of-howard-rheingold-fac63abd5e70
Follow Howard on Twitter: @hrheingold
Check out his latest work and support him on Patreon: https://patreon.com/howardrheingold
Subscribe to Life in the Foam!
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/life-in-the-foam/id1436529103
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7cjpKUGLA9VmQBwYdWdM3m
Direct RSS: http://www.clintonthegeek.com/feed/podcast
If you’d like to sponsor my work, please make a donation at
SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/clintonthegeek
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/clintonthegeek
Leave a Reply