The Next Social Revolution?

Cryofan writes "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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50% of the world's population don't have phones

[EmbeddedJanitor]

and perhaps only 10-15% have every used the www. For the forseeable future most social interactions will happen how they happened 50 or 100 years ago. People sitting around and talking, people walking and talking,...

Re:Communism failed?

[myowntrueself]

Actually, I suspect that Herr Hitler would best be described as a 'pagan'.

For example, he had certain German towns street plans rearranged to form runic symbols, SS officers were sent on special missions to perform rituals at certain sacred sites and so forth.

google for 'Hans Horbiger' who was a strong influence on Hitlers philosophy.