A recent report indicates that people who buy computers today are more interested in TheInternet and the SocialCommmunity? than they are in using the computer for computing.
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- YouTubeVideo --Usenet guru ErikFair?, virtual worlds pioneer and Yahoo! Community Strategist RandyFarmer?, LinkedIn founder ReidHoffman, and Six Apart co-founder MenaTrott?, together with top Wall Street Journal columnist KaraSwisher?, discuss fascinating personal stories and perspectives about social computing: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
- Easy connections brought about by cheap devices, modular content, and shared computing resources are having a profound impact on our global economy and social structure. Individuals increasingly take cues from one another rather than from institutional sources like corporations, media outlets, religions, and political bodies.
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