I am really enjoying my subscription to Technology Review. They continue to have outstanding articles about social software and the Web 2.0. Wade Roush wrote the cover story called Social Machines for the August issue.
He discusses how our society is changing as mobile technology and social software are being adopted by the masses. He also talks about how we are able to do things today that we couldn’t imagine doing a few years ago such as being able to view your house from a aerial viewpoint or tag your photographs online.
As our campus is WiFi enabled, I feel a part of the always-on/always-connected information stream as I can access the Internet anywhere using my laptop, carry a mobile phone, and use plazes so that friends know where I am if they need to reach me “in the flesh”.
Found via Zengestrom
Relevance: An example of the power of the many as Wade posted earlier drafts online in order to get feedback from readers. This is similar to what David Weinberger did while composing Small Pieces Loosely Joined.
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