The Rise Of The Social Nervous System - Forbes.com
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Saved by 15 people (1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2009-03-12
- Rksheater on 2009-03-15 - Tags SocialMedia , web2.0 , twitter , socialnetworking
- Jataylor on 2009-03-14 - Tags twitter , forbes.com , socialmedia , socialnetworks , internet , web2.0
- Carokann on 2009-03-13 - Tags networking , internet , collaboration , socialmedia , twitter , business , socialnetworking , crowdsourcing , global , forbes , imported
- E_barrett on 2009-03-13 - Tags social technology
- Choconancy on 2009-03-13 - Tags collaboration , cloud_computing , crowdsourcing , networks
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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.
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The Mumbai attacks showcased the use of Twitter as a real-time, peer-to-peer information service.
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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.
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clear way.
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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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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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on 2009-03-13 by melmcbride