The papers of writer and technologist Howard Rheingold include drafts, proposals, and other typescripts; notes; fliers; and many articles and videos by and about him.

Howard Rheingold (b.1947) is an author, teacher, and critic whose focus is primarily on technology and communication media. He is credited with creating the term "virtual communities." Rheingold was active on the WELL computer network beginning in 1985. He was editor of Whole Earth Review and the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog (1994). He was the first Executive Editor of HotWired and founded Electric Minds in 1996. In addition to the books Tools for Thought (1984), Virtual Reality (1991), The Virtual Community (1993), Smart Mobs (2002) and Net Smart (2012), Rheingold has written the "Tomorrow" newspaper column as well as articles in several other newspapers and magazines. He has worked with the Institute for the Future and was the first research fellow there in 2008. He has also been a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, and he leads the online learning community Rheingold U.

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