1. Howard Rheingold was born on 1947 and 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.
Howard Rheingold graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 1968.
Howard Rheingold explored the experience in his seminal book, The Virtual Community.
Also in 1985, Howard Rheingold coauthored Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security with former hacker Bill Landreth.
Howard Rheingold left HotWired and soon founded Electric Minds in 1996 to chronicle and promote the growth of community online.
In 2002, Howard Rheingold published Smart Mobs, exploring the potential for technology to augment collective intelligence.
Shortly thereafter, in conjunction with the Institute for the Future, Howard Rheingold launched an effort to develop a broad-based literacy of cooperation.
In 2008, Howard Rheingold became the first research fellow at the Institute for the Future, with which he had long been affiliated.
Howard Rheingold has been a frequent contributor to the Connected Learning Alliance blog on topics ranging from new media literacy to learning innovation.
Howard Rheingold contributed the essay "Participative Pedagogy for a Literacy of Literacies" to the Freesouls book project.