Howard Rheingold: Smart Mobs
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, not yet published; from the accompanying weblog: “Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. [...] used by some of its earliest adopters to support democracy and by others to coordinate terrorist attacks. The technologies that are beginning to make smart mobs possible are mobile communication devices and pervasive computing – inexpensive microprocessors embedded in everyday objects and environments.” (Via Cory Doctorow.)