An absolute banger of an article by @nancybaym.bsky.social out today in Social Media + Society. She astutely captures so much of what I've felt and observed about social media these days. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Where do we go from here? Excellent write up of some options to escape the enshittification of Discord. taggart-tech.com/discord-alte...

Students need to learn to use AI as a partner if they don't want to be replaced by it. My latest blog: Teaching Augmented Humanity is up at: wp.me/p8nV8X-Ad @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social

The searchable Whole Earth searchwhole.earth

We are training our students to be clarinet players when what we should be training them for is to be conductors. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-A2 @edufuturist.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

Before social media, there were virtual communities. Many of them. In 1996 we created a directory: rheingold.com/electricmind...

In 1998 I started online community, Brainstorms. Before social media sucked attention we had 400+ active members, meets in San Francisco, Memphis, Amsterdam, Melbourne. ~80 people now. For elders who prefer thoughtful discussion over performative posting, algorithms brainstormscommunity.org

In 1998 I started online community, Brainstorms. Before social media sucked attention we had 400+ active members, meets in San Francisco, Memphis, Amsterdam, Melbourne. ~80 people now. For elders who prefer thoughtful discussion over performative posting, algorithms brainstormscommunity.org

In 1991, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir agreed to be in an Interview issue on family if Howard Rheingold, who'd interviewed Jerry for his book Virtual Reality, did it. Fascinating. hrheingold.medium.com/interview-wi... @hrheingold.bsky.social donated the audio @archive.org archive.org/details/Rhei...

School is a medium for the teaching of knowledge But most forms of learning don’t require a formal setting or set of procedures—they can operate along the lines of apprenticeship: how-to demonstrations & on-the-job training, whether the task’s to hunt or to sing tales to maintain an oral tradition

www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/... The Future of Knowledge, and the Fate of Wisdom, in the Age of Information

bubbl.us/6957219 Interactive mindmap about thinking.

I posted this overview of mindmapping and concept mapping a few years ago www.patreon.com/posts/concep...

bubbl.us/6957219 Interactive mindmap about thinking.

I see that I was added to a blocklist because I posted this article about AI that isn't entirely negative. And I posted a neutral comment about my physician using AI. Is that really how it works around here?

I see that I was added to a blocklist because I posted this article about AI that isn't entirely negative. And I posted a neutral comment about my physician using AI. Is that really how it works around here?

My pcp looked at my chart on his computer screen while querying chatGPT on his phone 2025-physicians-ai-report.offcall.com

1994: people.well.com/user/hlr/tom...

Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom Foreword www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkJg...

Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom Foreword www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkJg...

1994: people.well.com/user/hlr/tom...

Educational institutions proved not to be up to the task over a decade ago when they failed to teach crap detection around internet search.

Bitter lesson of the degradation of the online commons: although vendors of digital media failed to recognize it, literacy and know-how are not externalities. Will llm vendors enable their media products to teach people how to use them?

Bitter lesson of the degradation of the online commons: although vendors of digital media failed to recognize it, literacy and know-how are not externalities. Will llm vendors enable their media products to teach people how to use them?

www.checkology.org news literacy, crap detection for elementary school students

Exiles on Mind Street • Spoonman • Justin Hall • Vagabond Jim • Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social Interview by R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social Photos by RE: DESIGN #Mondo2000 #Cyberpunk archive.org/details/Mond...

If you want to see how chatGPT can be both incompetent and dishonest: chatgpt.com/share/6920be...

If you want to see how chatGPT can be both incompetent and dishonest: chatgpt.com/share/6920be...

Read and support my writing and art-making at patreon.com/howardrheing...

Read and support my writing and art-making at patreon.com/howardrheing...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

Patreon recently enabled me to group my posts into thematic collections: AI Cooperation Theory Social Media Creative Process Howard's Artobiography Learning Technology Criticism www.patreon.com/posts/collec...

Patreon recently enabled me to group my posts into thematic collections: AI Cooperation Theory Social Media Creative Process Howard's Artobiography Learning Technology Criticism www.patreon.com/posts/collec...

Today is the 4th anniversary of the @cftchange.bsky.social . To celebrate, we are launching our framework, "Narrative Infrastructure for Narrative Power."

20 years ago, I gave a TED talk calling for an interdisciplinary study of cooperation. 15 years ago, I taught an online introduction to cooperation studies Now the University of Arizona launches the cooperative Futures Institute. www.cooperativefutures.org

20 years ago, I gave a TED talk calling for an interdisciplinary study of cooperation. 15 years ago, I taught an online introduction to cooperation studies Now the University of Arizona launches the cooperative Futures Institute. www.cooperativefutures.org

bigthink.com/thinking/lea... #attention #metacognition #learning

One of the key challenges in thinking about how to approach and understand AI is that we have taken a left turn from Enlightenment principles such as those of Kant and Condorcet. My latest piece explores that: wp.me/p8nV8X-zM @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

rheingold.com/texts/Online... Online governance: six case histories