Tuesday, August 13, 2002

Smart Mobs I "The big battle coming over the future of smart mobs concerns media cartels and government agencies are seeking to reimpose the regime of the broadcast era in which the customers of technology will be deprived of the power to create and left only with the power to consume. That power struggle is what the battles over file-sharing, copy protection, regulation of the radio spectrum are about. Are the populations of tomorrow going to be users, like the PC owners and website creators who turned technology to widespread innovation? Or will they be consumers, constrained from innovation and locked into the technology and business models of the most powerful entrenched interests?" -- Howard Rheingold 11:59:20 PM    comment [] Quicktime Video of Sony's SDR-3X Robot Kind of creepy, kind of cool. Look out, here comes the future. [via RRE News Service] 2:03:58 PM    comment []

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