REBECCA E SPITZER

combining design, journalism, and technology. when i feel like it, anyways.

Tag archive for ‘cell phones’

Smart Mobs: Predicting the Future back in 2003

I’ve just read the introduction to Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs, and I was amazed by how spot-on his analysis is. The book was published in 2003, but it describes our world so clearly that it could have been published yesterday.
Rheingold writes about his observation of the growth of “texting” as a new means of communication; [...]