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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. Smarts Mobs Application: +1, Patriotic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The impeachment
    of George W. Bush

    Thank you and have an Ashcroft-free day,
    W00t

  2. SCO/LUNIX IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have a tiny wiener and some little nuts!

  3. Smart People? by big_groo · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    There's no way that I could pay nearly $4,000 for a freaking word processor at home. It just isn't going to happen.

    Well...duh.

  4. You paedophiles on Kazaa read this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I've set a honeypot on my computer to catch you sick bastards.

    I've got a directory full of hundreds of goatse.cx pics named and advertised as kiddie porn.

    I will log each and every download and record your IP number. I'll hunt down your name and physical address. When I've got enough evidence I will go to the cops with it and demand action. If, as usual, they won't do anything in spite of all the evidence I've gathered, I'll release it all to the tabloid press. Addresses and all. If the cops won't do their jobs, a horde of yobs will.

  5. Re:IF mobs are smarter... by Glock27 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    If mobs are smarter, then why is Ahnold the frontrunner in California?

    Because he is the best fit for most people of the available candidates.

    • Gray Davis: Dead in the water - obviously a fool and liar.
    • Bustamente: Gray Davis reincarnated, only even oilier. Certainly no solution.
    • McClintock: Too socially conservative for many people, even if his fiscal policies might be great.
    • Schwarzenegger: Political Terminator. :-)
    Arnold is simply the right man for the times.
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  6. morons note just 50% of population embarrassed buy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    refudlicking administration? javascript:CNN_openPopup('/POLLSERVER/results/6229 .html','popuppoll','toolbar=no,location=no,directo ries=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizab le=no,width=620,height=430') the rest of US are thought to be more afraid, &/or angry about the hole fauxking softwar gangster/corepirate nazi thing.

  7. Re:"the son of a Nazi party member" by fenix+down · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, she also failed to mention that Arnold's president's grandfather on his father's side was a Nazi sympathizer whom FDR had to freeze the assets of because of the way he bought the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation and it's plant at Auschwitz from Fritz Thyssen and then continued to use only slave laborers to manufacture steel that was sold exclusively to the Nazis from 1939 untill 1942 when the Justice Department caught him and kept him from spending the 1.5 million he had made until after the war, but I'm not bitching because NO ONE FUCKING CARES.

  8. Re:IF mobs are smarter... by fenix+down · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's the difference between Arnold and Gary Coleman?

    Arnold's taller.

    The right man for the times is whichever one can be fashioned into a crude explosive device powerful enough to sink California into the Pacific. If Arnold's power supply can pull it off, more power to him, until he overloads and takes the lot of you with him.

  9. Re:IF mobs are smarter... by Glock27 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Because he is the best fit for most people of the available candidates.
    • Gray Davis: Dead in the water - obviously a fool and liar.
    • Bustamente: Gray Davis reincarnated, only even oilier. Certainly no solution.
    • McClintock: Too socially conservative for many people, even if his fiscal policies might be great.
    • Schwarzenegger: Political Terminator. :-)
    Arnold is simply the right man for the times.

    Ah, moderation as punishment for a viewpoint with which you don't agree. Very intellectually honest...

    Would any moderators care to state why the parent was modded to -1 Offtopic when the "Georgy" and "Arnold vs. Gary Coleman" weren't modded down?

    And of course, this wasn't off-topic at all - it is an explanation of why the "mob" is actually smart.

    I'd argue that the parent wasn't "funny", but I suppose it is - to most non-Californians. To us, unfortunately, the whole thing is deadly serious.

    Oh, and don't think that trying to censor me via moderation will work - I have plenty of karma to burn. ;-)

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    Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
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