Tag archive for ‘predictions’
A final TUI tidbit:
In researching various things for my thesis, I ran across this tidbit. I think it’s from Rheingold’s Smart Mobs, but I’ve been through so many books the last few days I can’t put my finger on it.
Anyways. This comes from the middle of a discussion about ubiquitous computing and the idea of phicons.
“The Media Lab [...]
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; [...]