Title: Provocative Prescience
Review: The ethical core of Smart Mobs is cooperation, around which orbits a whirling constellation of hot-topic technologies. Cooperation, Howard Rheingold argues, was the founding Internet weltanschauung; now, aided by tiny computers, sensors and transmitters embedded in the environment, mobile ad-hoc social networks might make for more profound social change. These are "smart mobs" - groups who use technology to coordinate their actions in unpredicted ways. American college students, Tokyo teenagers, Al Quaeda and WTO protestors use mobile phones and peer to peer file sharing today, and tomorrow will likely use geospatial bulletin boards, mesh networks and reputation systems. Smart Mobs tingles with provocative prescience.
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