Smart Mobs: The next social revolution by Howard Rheingold, Perseus, $26, ISBN 0738206083
WHAT makes people willing to share information with strangers? That was the question Howard Rheingold posed in his 1994 book The Virtual Community. Much of that book was based on his experiences as a founder member of San Francisco’s electronic conferencing system the WELL, where I sometimes run across him.
Now he’s exploring intriguing new questions. What happens when computing is pervasive, enabled and supported by mobile connections? What is the sociological and cultural impact of the ad hoc formation of mobile human networks? Rheingold tackles these questions in his new book, Smart…
