Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold (born July 7, 1947 in Phoenix, Arizona) is a leading thinker on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communications media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing).

Partial Bibliography

• Talking Tech: A conversational Guide to Science and Technology with Howard Levine (1982)
• Higher Creativity with Willis Harman (1984)
• Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (free in HTML form) (1985)
• Out of the Inner Circle with Bill Landreth (1985)
• They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases (1988)
• The Cognitive Connection: Thought and Language in Man and Machine with Howard Levine (1987)
• Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind (1988)
• Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming with Stephen LaBerge (1990)
• Virtual Reality (1991)
• The Virtual Community (free in HTML form) (1993)
• Millennium Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools and Ideas for the Twenty-First Century (1995)
• Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2003)