Howard Rheingold

Stephen LaBerge

"[A] solid how-to book...For amateur dream researchers, this is a must." WHOLE EARTH REVIEW This book goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology, establishing a scientifically researched framework for using lucid dreaming--that is, consciously influencing the outcome of your dreams. Based on Dr. Stephen LaBerge's extensive laboratory work at Stanford University mapping mind/body relationships during the dream state, as well as the teachings of Tibetan dream yogis and the work of other scientists, including German psycholgist Paul Tholey, this practical workbook will show you how to use your dreams to: Solve problems; Gain greater confidence; improve creativity, and more.

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

On technological development and computer development.

The History and Future of Mind-expanding Technology

Tools for Thought

Describes the rise of social media and explains how to use it intelligently, discussing five methods for achieving this goal: attention, participation, collaboration, critical consumption of information, and network smarts.

How to Thrive Online

Net Smart

From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Rheingold takes readers on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift--a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the widespread adoption of the PC in the 1980s and the Internet in the 1990s. The coming wave, says Rheingold, is the result of super-efficient mobile communications.

The Next Social Revolution

Smart Mobs

Howard Rheingold tours the "virtual community" of online networking.

Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier

The Virtual Community

Instead of asking whether the Web is making us stupid, Howard Rheingold turns that question around and asks how designing and using digital media mindfully could make us smarter.

Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter?.

Mind Amplifier

Imagine being able to "walk" into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it's science fact. Surgeons now rehearse operations on computer-generated "virtual" patients, and architects "walk through" virtual buildings while the actual structures are still in blueprints. In Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold takes us to the front lines of this revolutionary new technology that creates computer-generated worlds complete with the sensations of touch and motion, and explores its impact on everything from entertainment to particle physics.

The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds-And How It Promises to Transform Society

Virtual Reality

Realidad Virtual

Imagine being able to "walk" into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it's science fact. Surgeons now rehearse operations on computer-generated "virtual" patients, and architects "walk through" virtual buildings while the actual structures are still in blueprints. In "Virtual Reality", Howard Rheingold takes us to the front lines of this revolutionary new technology that creates computer-generated worlds complete with the sensations of touch and motion, and explores its impact on everything from entertainment to particle physics.

Willis W. Harman

Insight is the mind's magic in action, solving problems, understanding relationships, creating new images--with a speed and certainty unavailable to ordinary consciousness. Breakthrough insights go even further. They take a quantum leap beyond ordinary creativity and our previous ways of looking at things--to a whole new method of resolving our difficulties. Almost all of us have experienced such moments in relation to work oriented or personal problems, and wish we could have them more often--in fact, we can. According to Willis Harman, Ph.D., president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and Howard Rheingold, human behavior columnist for Esquire, the main reasons we fail to have this kind of breakthrough experience more frequently are that we don't believe we can, and we don't apply the known techniques which can generate these insights. In Higher Creativity, the authors discuss this self-imposed limitation and argue persuasively for an enlarged image of everyone's creative potential. They examine the secret history of inspiration through contemporary and historical accounts of profound creative breakthroughs, and finally they describe a surprisingly simple and reproducible sequence that has often triggered these insights for outstanding innovators in business, science, and the arts. These apparently special people became special by harnessing, sometimes quite accidentally, the awesome power of the unconscious in the service of higher creativity. Following their example and using historically validated procedures for reprogramming the unconscious, you can learn to capture the lightning for personal breakthrough in your own life.

Liberating the Unconscious for Breakthrough Insights

Higher Creativity

Luzides Träumen kann eine berauschende Erfahrung sein. Man träumt bewusst und kann seine Träume aktiv steuern und beeinflussen – und sie so für sich nutzen. Erlernen Sie mithilfe dieses Ratgebers das luzide Träumen und tauchen Sie ein in eine Traumwelt, in der alles möglich ist. Einer der führenden Experten auf dem Gebiet des luziden Träumens, der Psychologe Stephen LaBerge, hat jahrelang die Beziehung zwischen Körper und Geist während des Traumstadiums erforscht und die notwendigen Schritte zur Perfektionierung des luziden Träumens entschlüsselt. Dieses praxisbezogene Übungsbuch wird Ihnen nicht nur dabei helfen, das luzide Träumen zu erlernen, sondern Ihnen auch zeigen, wie Sie mithilfe Ihrer Träume - Probleme lösen, - Ihr Selbstvertrauen verbessern, - Ihre Kreativität steigern, - Ängste und Hemmungen konfrontieren und bezwingen. Dieser wichtige Klassiker der Traumliteratur ist ein Muss für alle, die nicht nur im Traum über ihre Grenzen hinausgehen möchten.

Die Kunst des luziden Träumens

Träume, was du träumen willst

Examples taken from more than forty different languages demonstrate the ability of other languages to provide words for objects or thoughts that English lacks

A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases

They Have a Word for it

Lists useful resources related to science, health care, crafts, communication, late-twentieth century technologies, biodiversity, and more

Access to Tools and Ideas for the Twenty-first Century

The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog

Discusses a new interactive computer technology that creates the illusion of being immersed in an artificial world that exists only in the computer, and examines the remarkable future implications of virtual reality technology

the next social revolution

Smart mobs

A media guru shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully. Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberculture expert Howard Rheingold shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully. Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing inner inquiry into how we want to spend our time. Rheingold outlines five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us do this: attention, participation, collaboration, critical consumption of information (or "crap detection"), and network smarts. He explains how attention works, and how we can use our attention to focus on the tiny relevant portion of the incoming tsunami of information. He describes the quality of participation that empowers the best of the bloggers, netizens, tweeters, and other online community participants; he examines how successful online collaborative enterprises contribute new knowledge to the world in new ways; and he teaches us a lesson on networks and network building. Rheingold points out that there is a bigger social issue at work in digital literacy, one that goes beyond personal empowerment. If we combine our individual efforts wisely, it could produce a more thoughtful society: countless small acts like publishing a Web page or sharing a link could add up to a public good that enriches everybody.

Che siate entusiasti delle straordinarie potenzialità della rete o angosciati per le dimensioni della vostra casella di posta elettronica, le considerazioni di Howard Rheingold su come imparare il nuovo alfabeto digitale meritano la vostra attenzione. Le competenze essenziali che l’autore descrive non solo vi serviranno per non farvi sommergere dal diluvio di informazioni ma vi aiuteranno a sviluppare tutto il potenziale dell’intelligenza collettiva in rete. Nell’alfabetizzazione digitale sono in gioco conseguenze sociali e personali assai più rilevanti che non il semplice arricchimento individuale. Mettendo insieme i singoli sforzi, è possibile costruire una società più seria, attenta e responsabile: innumerevoli piccoli gesti, come pubblicare una pagina Web o condividere un link, se uniti fra loro, possono tradursi in un patrimonio di beni comuni che migliora tutti. Usare il Web consapevolmente può renderci davvero più intelligenti, come dimostra questo libro, scritto nello stile notoriamente brillante di Rheingold.

Perché la rete ci rende intelligenti

una sociedad sin fronteras

La comunidad virtual

The "virtual community" of online networking is as real as any physical community. In this BIT, "First Citizen of the Internet" Howard Rheingold offers an account of the people who made this networked world possible -- "stubborn visionaries who insisted that computers could be used by people other than specialists" -- describing pioneers of citizen tool-making that range from a former radar operator who had an epiphany on the way to work in 1950 to crusading programmers, clever MIT hackers, and the creators of Usenet, MUD, and the WELL.

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