[AktiviX-discuss] The Next Social Revolution?

[chip]

hi

saw this on slashdot, innit:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5671750/

In a recent interview, Howard Rheingold (author of Smart Mobs) discussed 
the possibility of a 'new economic system' born of 'unconscious
cooperation' embodied by such technologies as Google links and Amazon 
lists, Wikipedia, wireless devices using unlicensed spectrum, Web logs, 
and open-source software.

Rheingold speculates that "the technology of the Internet, reputation 
systems, online communities, mobile devices...may make some new economic 
system possible....We had markets, then we had capitalism, and socialism 
was a reaction to industrial-era capitalism. There's been an assumption 
that since communism failed, capitalism is triumphant, therefore humans 
have stopped evolving new systems for economic production."

However, Rheingold is worried that established companies with business 
models that are threatened by these new technologies could "quash such 
nascent innovations as file-sharing - and potentially put the U.S. at 
risk of falling behind the rest of the world".


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