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...Howard Rheingold, who has made a career of writing about the implications of technology, last year published Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution—a book positing that technological innovation was redefining age-old patterns of collective action...
...Rheingold says that the same patterns of communication that have given rise to flash mobs are responsible for a variety of recent worldwide phenomena—a list that includes Estrada demonstrations in the Philippines, globally coordinated protests against war in Iraq and the shocking last-minute victory in a recent Korean election...
Pariser sits at the nexus of what Howard Rheingold would call a smart mob. Rheingold, a veteran technology watcher and well-published futurist (Tools for Thought, 1985; Virtual Reality, 1991; The Virtual Community, 1993), has put his finger on yet another transformative technology. In Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (Perseus; 288 pages) he describes how large, geographically dispersed groups connected only by thin threads of communications technology--cell phones, text messaging, two-way pagers, e-mail, websites--can be drawn together at a moment's notice like schools of fish to perform some collective action...
...hits stopped coming. A nice married couple was suddenly sooooo 1954. Paul looked less like a genius- guitarist than an irrelevant uncle. Les and Mary did commercials for the Robert Hall clothing chain ('When the values go up-up-up/ And the prices go down-down- down') and Rheingold Beer. They broke up the act, and their marriage. (Ford died, at 52, in 1976.) Paul pretty much retired. He survived quintuple-bypass heart surgery; it was one of the first operations of its kind - another Les Paul innovation. Back from the dead, he was named to the Rock Hall...
Other than his fetish for Chinese clavicle, Rheingold is able to provide little that's useful in the way of information or specs. And in the nine years since he published his personal fantasies, there has been surprisingly little progress. Vivid, the world's largest producer of adult entertainment, promised to deliver an interactive bodysuit last September but missed its deadline. Sure, it had a $200,000 black neoprene suit with 36 electrodes stuck to the chest, crotch and other special places, but the suit didn't look very appetizing. Nor did it do anything. Vivid says it's waiting...