Smart Mobs
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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution is a book by Howard Rheingold
dealing with the social, economic and political changes implicated by developing technology
. The book covers subjects from text-messaging culture to wireless
internet
developments to the impact of the web on the marketplace. The author highlights the many ways in which technology alters and impacts the way in which people live and think.
Howard Rheingold
-See also:* Collective intelligence* Information society* The WELL* Virtual community-External links:***** at TED conference** a 48MB Quicktime movie, hosted by the Internet Archive...
dealing with the social, economic and political changes implicated by developing technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
. The book covers subjects from text-messaging culture to wireless
Wireless
Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...
internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
developments to the impact of the web on the marketplace. The author highlights the many ways in which technology alters and impacts the way in which people live and think.
External links
- SmartMobs.com is Rheingold's home page.