Visit rheingold.com for a more recent and web-ized version of this book The Virtual Community: Table of Contents By Howard Rheingold Note to readers: I can see that thousands of people are reading or at least looking at each chapter of this book every month. Excellent! I put these words out here for the Net without charge because I want to get as much good information distributed as possible ...

Virtual Communities: Abort, Retry, Failure By Jan Fernback & Brad Thompson * A version of this paper, entitled Computer-Mediated Communication and the American Collectivity: The Dimensions of Community Within Cyberspace, was presented at the annual convention of the International Communication Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 1995 There is no there there. -- Gertrude Stein I.

Visit rheingold.com for a more recent, web-ized version of this book Tools For Thought: The People and Ideas of the Next Computer Revolution By Howard Rheingold First published by Simon & Schuster, 1985. Copyright Howard Rheingold, 1985. This book is out of print; all rights have reverted to the author. Contents Acknowledgements Dedication Chapter One: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet ...