The Rise Of The Social Nervous System - Forbes.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 15 Mar 09
  

  Regina Heater

  via Mashable

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  John Taylor

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• 13 Mar 09
  

  Peter Fendrich

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  Erin Barrett

  Related: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-social-nervous-system-has-more-than-one-sense.html

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  Nancy White

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  Ruth Muschinske

  One perspective on the forming of the "hive mind" via the Internet

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  isaac Mao

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  M McBride

  This article is uncritically optimistic and glossing over of significant privacy issues. It's got a "this is the future, deal with it" sort of tone that is very problematic. Otherwise, worth examining.

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  • The rise of "social" technologies--such as wikis, blogs, Twitter, SMS and social networks--means that the barriers to participation across the planet (in terms of the cost, access and skills required) are rapidly approaching zero.
  • the larger point is that this real-time communication system influenced the physical behavior on the ground in Mumbai.
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  • • Watch the news, and you will see daily evidence of how a system that connects billions of people is influencing the physical world--from recent protests in California against Proposition 8 organized by Facebook to the riots in my hometown of Oakland after several witnesses uploaded video taken from their mobile phones of a police shooting.
    • clear way.
    • Another outcome of the social nervous system is that we see the shift away from privacy as an inalienable right to an individual responsibility. In a social nervous system there will be increasing pressure to be connected 24/7 to the hive mind that is Facebook, Twitter and so on. Those who do not connect, share and collaborate will have a hard time in business and in social life.
• 12 Mar 09
  

  Takuya Homma
  • The Mumbai attacks showcased the use of Twitter as a real-time, peer-to-peer information service.
  • As one participant noted, poll observers "took the real-time results of who actually showed up at the polls and fed it back to the campaign so that they could adjust their GOTV calls and canvassing as the day wore on.
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  • • Another outcome of the social nervous system is that we see the shift away from privacy as an inalienable right to an individual responsibility. In a social nervous system there will be increasing pressure to be connected 24/7 to the hive mind that is Facebook, Twitter and so on. Those who do not connect, share and collaborate will have a hard time in business and in social life.
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  Neil Kirby

  Overview on the integrated world via the Internet

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  Marie Young

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  M McBride on 2009-03-13
  while the hive mind is worth explaining to people, I have a lot of problems with the way this guy unpacked the issues around it. And this is my problem with old/mainstream media.

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