Fwd: [Fwd: PCD 10/24/03 - Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: Mobile (Fwd)]

[Owen Densmore]

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> Subject: [Fwd: PCD 10/24/03 - Howard Rheingold,  Smart Mobs: Mobile  
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> Luckily, the talk will be available online.
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> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:36:04 -0700
> From: "Terry Winograd" <[hidden email]>
> Subject: PCD 10/24/03 - Howard Rheingold,  Smart Mobs: Mobile
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> *************************************************************
> Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547)
> Home page: http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar
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> This talk will be available as on-line video.  Look under Computer  
> Science
> 547 in
> http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/students/courseList.asp
>
> *************************************************************
> Friday, October 24, 2003, 12:30-2:00pm
> Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN
>
> Howard Rheingold
>    [hidden email]
>    http://www.rheingold.com/
> =09
> TITLE:    Smart Mobs: Mobile Communication, Pervasive Computing, and=20
> Collective Action
>
> ABSTRACT:
> Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies  
> amplify=20
> human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology  
> already=
> =20
> appear to be both beneficial and destructive, used by some of its  
> earliest=
> =20
> adopters to support democracy and by others to coordinate terrorist  
> attacks.
> The technologies that make smart mobs possible are mobile  
> communication=20
> devices and pervasive computing - inexpensive microprocessors embedded  
> in=20
> everyday objects and environments. Already, governments have fallen,  
> youth=
> =20
> subcultures have blossomed from Asia to Scandinavia, new industries  
> have=20
> been born and older industries have launched furious counterattacks.
>
> Street demonstrators in the 1999 anti-WTO protests used dynamically  
> updated=
> =20
> websites, cell-phones, and "swarming" tactics in the "battle of  
> Seattle." A=
> =20
> million Filipinos toppled President Estrada through public  
> demonstrations=20
> organized through salvos of text messages.
>
> The pieces of the puzzle are all around us now, but haven't joined  
> together=
> =20
> yet. The radio chips designed to replace barcodes on manufactured  
> objects=20
> are part of it. Wireless Internet nodes in cafes, hotels, and  
> neighborhoods=
> =20
> are part of it. Millions of people who lend their computers to the  
> search=20
> for extraterrestrial intelligence are part of it. The way buyers and=20
> sellers rate each other on Internet auction site eBay is part of it.=20
> Research by biologists, sociologists, and economists into the nature  
> of=20
> cooperation offer explanatory frameworks.
>
> The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before  
> possible=20
> because they carry devices that possess both communication and  
> computing=20
> capabilities. Their mobile devices connect them with other  
> information=20
> devices in the environment as well as with other people's  
> telephones.=20
> Dirt-cheap microprocessors embedded in everything from box tops to  
> shoes=20
> are beginning to permeate furniture, buildings, neighborhoods,  
> products=20
> with invisible intercommunicating smartifacts. When they connect the=20
> tangible objects and places of our daily lives with the Internet,  
> handheld=
> =20
> communication media could mutate into wearable remote control devices  
> for=20
> the physical world.
>
> Media cartels and government agencies are seeking to reimpose the  
> regime of=
> =20
> the broadcast era in which the customers of technology will be  
> deprived of=
> =20
> the power to create and left only with the power to consume. That  
> power=20
> struggle is what the battles over file-sharing, copy-protection,  
> regulation=
> =20
> of the radio spectrum are about. Are the citizens of tomorrow going to  
> be=20
> users, like the PC owners and website creators who turned technology  
> to=20
> widespread innovation? Or will they be consumers, constrained from=20
> innovation and locked into the technology and business models of  
> entrenched=
> =20
> interests?
>
>
> **************************************************************
> Howard Rheingold is the author of:
> =B7 Smart Mobs
> =B7 The Virtual Community
> =B7 Tools for Thought
> was the editor of:
> =B7 The Whole Earth Review
> =B7 The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog
> =B7 HotWired
> founded:
> =B7 Electric Minds
> =B7 Brainstorms
>
> **************************************************************
> NEXT WEEK: October 31, 2003 - To be announced
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[Bruce Sawhill]

I might go today and check it out.

Bruce

On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 07:22 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

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> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: brian raymor <[hidden email]>
>> Date: Mon Oct 20, 2003  4:46:21  PM America/Denver
>> To: [hidden email], [hidden email], [hidden email]
>> Subject: [Fwd: PCD 10/24/03 - Howard Rheingold,  Smart Mobs: Mobile  
>> (Fwd)]
>>
>>
>> Luckily, the talk will be available online.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: PCD 10/24/03 - Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: Mobile (Fwd)
>> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:32:39 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Bill Yeager <[hidden email]>
>> Reply-To: Bill Yeager <[hidden email]>
>> To: [hidden email]
>>
>>
>>
>>> ----------------Begin Forwarded Message----------------<
>>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:36:04 -0700
>> From: "Terry Winograd" <[hidden email]>
>> Subject: PCD 10/24/03 - Howard Rheingold,  Smart Mobs: Mobile
>> To: [hidden email], [hidden email]
>>
>>
>> *************************************************************
>> Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547)
>> Home page: http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar
>>
>> This talk will be available as on-line video.  Look under Computer  
>> Science
>> 547 in
>> http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/students/courseList.asp
>>
>> *************************************************************
>> Friday, October 24, 2003, 12:30-2:00pm
>> Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN
>>
>> Howard Rheingold
>>    [hidden email]
>>    http://www.rheingold.com/
>> =09
>> TITLE:    Smart Mobs: Mobile Communication, Pervasive Computing,  
>> and=20
>> Collective Action
>>
>> ABSTRACT:
>> Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies  
>> amplify=20
>> human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology  
>> already=
>> =20
>> appear to be both beneficial and destructive, used by some of its  
>> earliest=
>> =20
>> adopters to support democracy and by others to coordinate terrorist  
>> attacks.
>> The technologies that make smart mobs possible are mobile  
>> communication=20
>> devices and pervasive computing - inexpensive microprocessors  
>> embedded in=20
>> everyday objects and environments. Already, governments have fallen,  
>> youth=
>> =20
>> subcultures have blossomed from Asia to Scandinavia, new industries  
>> have=20
>> been born and older industries have launched furious counterattacks.
>>
>> Street demonstrators in the 1999 anti-WTO protests used dynamically  
>> updated=
>> =20
>> websites, cell-phones, and "swarming" tactics in the "battle of  
>> Seattle." A=
>> =20
>> million Filipinos toppled President Estrada through public  
>> demonstrations=20
>> organized through salvos of text messages.
>>
>> The pieces of the puzzle are all around us now, but haven't joined  
>> together=
>> =20
>> yet. The radio chips designed to replace barcodes on manufactured  
>> objects=20
>> are part of it. Wireless Internet nodes in cafes, hotels, and  
>> neighborhoods=
>> =20
>> are part of it. Millions of people who lend their computers to the  
>> search=20
>> for extraterrestrial intelligence are part of it. The way buyers  
>> and=20
>> sellers rate each other on Internet auction site eBay is part of  
>> it.=20
>> Research by biologists, sociologists, and economists into the nature  
>> of=20
>> cooperation offer explanatory frameworks.
>>
>> The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before  
>> possible=20
>> because they carry devices that possess both communication and  
>> computing=20
>> capabilities. Their mobile devices connect them with other  
>> information=20
>> devices in the environment as well as with other people's  
>> telephones.=20
>> Dirt-cheap microprocessors embedded in everything from box tops to  
>> shoes=20
>> are beginning to permeate furniture, buildings, neighborhoods,  
>> products=20
>> with invisible intercommunicating smartifacts. When they connect  
>> the=20
>> tangible objects and places of our daily lives with the Internet,  
>> handheld=
>> =20
>> communication media could mutate into wearable remote control devices  
>> for=20
>> the physical world.
>>
>> Media cartels and government agencies are seeking to reimpose the  
>> regime of=
>> =20
>> the broadcast era in which the customers of technology will be  
>> deprived of=
>> =20
>> the power to create and left only with the power to consume. That  
>> power=20
>> struggle is what the battles over file-sharing, copy-protection,  
>> regulation=
>> =20
>> of the radio spectrum are about. Are the citizens of tomorrow going  
>> to be=20
>> users, like the PC owners and website creators who turned technology  
>> to=20
>> widespread innovation? Or will they be consumers, constrained from=20
>> innovation and locked into the technology and business models of  
>> entrenched=
>> =20
>> interests?
>>
>>
>> **************************************************************
>> Howard Rheingold is the author of:
>> =B7 Smart Mobs
>> =B7 The Virtual Community
>> =B7 Tools for Thought
>> was the editor of:
>> =B7 The Whole Earth Review
>> =B7 The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog
>> =B7 HotWired
>> founded:
>> =B7 Electric Minds
>> =B7 Brainstorms
>>
>> **************************************************************
>> NEXT WEEK: October 31, 2003 - To be announced
>> **************************************************************
>> The mailing list for these seminar announcements is
>> [hidden email], which is managed by an automated  
>> server. For
>> information on subscribing or unsubscribing, see
>> http://hci.stanford.edu/lists.html
>> For information about the project in general see
>> http://interactivity.stanford.edu
>>
>>
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