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Smart People in the News: Rheingold, Gosling

Posted by Hemos on from the look-at-the-big-brain-on-brad dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "In "How Will "Smart Mobs" Play Out?," BusinessWeek asked questions to Howard Rheingold, who published the "Smart Mobs" book at the end of 2002. Rheingold talks about the emergence of the picturephone, especially outside the U.S. He adds that future business applications for smart mobs might start anywhere in the world, like "finding out about the spot labor market in [an] African village." For his part, James Gosling, the leading guy behind the Java programming language, is interviewed by Red Herring, in Social smarts. He talks about the social implications of the Internet by looking at the Brazilian National Medical System. Gosling also talks about the entertainment industry which deeply hates Internet, and about the open source movement, of which he is a big fan. And of course, that leads him to talk about Microsoft. This summary contains some excerpts of both interviews."

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  1. Smart mob in an African Village? by gpinzone · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's some smart mobsters in some African village trying to blik me out of thousands of dollars. I don't need any fancy technology other then a hotmail account to find them, either.

    1. Re:Smart mob in an African Village? by andy666 · · Score: 2, Funny

      i disagree!!
      i helped this nigerian guy out and i made a bundle! with the money, i bought a great house with a fantastic mortgage. then i married a beautiful russian bride, and i pleasure her with my surgically enlarged, viagra driven member.

    2. Re:Smart mob in an African Village? by Kevin_ap · · Score: 1, Funny

      hmmm I tried to order some of that viagra but the webesite didn't accept my credit card, which is very wierd because it worked perfecly well when I paid to view the webcams installed in some university's girl showers.

    3. Re:Smart mob in an African Village? by mo^ · · Score: 0, Funny

      At risk of being modded flaimbait, i find the need to say.

      Fuck you and your ignorant, xenophobic, narrow minded opinions you piece of shit hiding behind your cowell of anonymity. Its remarks like this that confirm to me any chance of a bit of global happiness or tolerance is merely a mirage

      --
      bah!*@%!
  2. IF mobs are smarter... by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 1, Funny

    If mobs are smarter, then why is Ahnold the frontrunner in California?

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    ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
  3. Smart Mobs concept is more overblown... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...than Ron Jeremy. I hope to never hear of the concept again. Spot labor market in African village? Is there anyone but stupid reporters that even cares about this?

  4. Smart Mobs WILL change the world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Society hasn't been the same since college kids started stuffing large numbers of themselves into phone booths and Volkswagens. Smart Mobs promise to have an even greater societal impact.

    1. Re:Smart Mobs WILL change the world by ddimas · · Score: 2, Funny
      Society hasn't been the same since college kids started stuffing large numbers of themselves into phone booths and Volkswagens.

      And then I hit the puree button...

      EEEWWWWWW!

  5. Re:Maybe he's right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    When she finds the right provider my number is +32 12334567