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Disruptive Technology - NetSquared 2006

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rocketdog
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Posted: 06.12.06, 12:56 PM
This is a really facinating discussion about the future of internet communication as a tool for social change. Paul Saffo's comments about the need for technological "elites" make a lot of sense, as do his and Rheingold's calls for a healthy dose of realism when pondering the potential of things like the internet to have an impact on policy.

Saffo's comparisons of net technology to previous mediums like television and radio are particularly enlightening. Anyone still doubting the effectiveness of the internet on political campaigns should consider Saffo's observation that we're simply yet to see a politician who could effectively harness these new technologies as a useful tool (see chapter "Listening to the Medium"). As I see it, Howard Dean's primary run may be an example of a campaign that, at least in an organizational sense, almost got there; also recall the similarly constructed Draft Clark movement that finally persuaded Wes Clark to enter the '04 primary race (and which was afterwards wholly ignored by the candidate's old-school campaign officials.) Aside from those exceptions, for the most part politicans from either party still haven't learned to use the internet as much of anything beyond an elaborate ATM.
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