Smart Mobs

Chapter One:

Connecting mobile devices to the Internet is more than getting stock quotes on your phone. The practice of sending short instant text messages triggered youth revolutions in Tokyo and Helsinki, and a political revolution in Manila. Such topics that are discussed were Thumb Tribes, i-mode Uber Alles, Virtual Helsinki and the Botfighters of Stockholm, Generation txt, Identity Networks, Placeless Spaces and Other Social Collisions.

Smart Mobs is about technology, particularly mobile technology and its impact on society and how people interact. The first chapter covers a lot of interesting topics, particularly how mobile phone technology is changing the way that teenagers interact with one another and how it supports group formation and connection, whether its for a postive reaction or negative reaction.

Chapter Two:
Mobile and pervasive technologies of cooperation make new kinds of collective action possible. Topics included The Alchemy of Coopetition, Mutual Aid, The Prisoner's Dilemma, And Other Games People Play, Inventing the Innovation Commons, Who Knows Who Knows Who and Social Networks As Driving Forces.

Chapter Three:

As the computing power in desktop machines has multiplied, and the Internet has connected hundreds of millions of machines at increasingly higher speeds, people have started linking their computers into collective enterprises. Interesting items that were covered included ETs, Worms, and Zillas, Peer to Peer Power, which made me think of Napster, the most famous name in peer to peer networking and sharing, Sheep That Shit Grass, Grids and Ad-hocracies.

Chapter Four:

Radio-equipped microchips permeating the environment, computers built into clothing, information beacons embedded in cities, are erasing the barrier between bits and atoms. Information is becoming embedded in things, and associated with places -- presenting grave dangers and unprecedented opportunity. This chapter covered Cooltown, HotTown, and Other Informated Places, Location, Location, Location: Infomediaries and Digital Cities, The Marriage of Bits and Atoms,Wearable Computers: The Political Battleground of Pervasive Technology.

Chapter Five:

Reputation marks the spot where technology and cooperation converge. Topics discussed; Cooperation Catalysts, Ego Strokes, Opinion Markets, and Bozofilters, Restoring The Shadow of the Future,Mobile, Pervasive, and Reputable.

Chapter Six:

Ad hoc, self-organized networks of grassroots users of inexpensive, high speed, wireless Internet communications, now challenge existing technologies, regulatory regimes, and industries. Chapter six covered Unwiring The World, One Neighborhood At A Time,Tonga, Mongolia, The Rez, and Wales, Open Spectrum Vs The Good Old Boys.