Mob Rule

If you want to find out how emerging technologies are going to affect society and individuals, ask Howard Rheingold. A former editor of Whole Earth Review and the founding editor of HotWired, Howard has written a string of astonishingly prescient books about the ways in which technology impacts the way we live. His 1984 book, Tools for Thought, foresaw the personal computer revolution years before most people had even touched a keyboard. In 1991, Virtual Reality introduced the idea of computer-generated worlds to popular culture. In 1993, before the World Wide Web had taken off, Howard wrote The Virtual Community, which looked at the ways in which groups of people interact online.(...)

TF: What are smart mobs?

HLR: Smart mobs are groups of people who use mobile communications and pervasive computing to organize collective actions in new ways. [read more]

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Smart Mobs
A Website and Weblog about Topics and Issues discussed in the book
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold

thanks to Politics in the Zeros

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Howard Rheingold

I fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension, then plugged my computer into my telephone and got sucked into the net.

Rheingold is an interesting dude. He's one of those people that sees, and participates in, cultural changes when they are in their infancy. He also paints his shoes. I discovered his painted shoe page in 1995. I e-mailed him on shoe painting technique and he responded with encouragement. However, my shoes were a brand new pair of Docs and I couldn't bring myself to paint them. Those Docs are pretty worn out and don't get worn much anymore. Maybe it's time to get out the paint.

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