Smart Mobs

This work previews what the author predicts will be a new shift in techno-culture spurred by advances in mobile communication, providing examples of current indicators and citing the technology's vulnerabilities.

Autorentext
Howard Rheingold is a leading authority on the social implications of technology. A former founding editor of HotWired, he has served as editor of The Whole Earth Review and editor-in-chief of The Millennium Whole Earth catalogue, and on-line host for The Well. He lives in Mill Valley, California.

Klappentext

From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Rheingold takes readers on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift--a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the widespread adoption of the PC in the 1980s and the Internet in the 1990s.

Zusammenfassung
"A vivid mural of the...new frontier of the mobile Web."-Fast Company