The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Technology. After five years pursuing the social-local-mobile dream, we need a fresh paradigm for technology startups.
Finnish teenagers performing digital ennui in 1996 2006. Reuters. We're there. The future that visionaries imagined in the late 1990s of phones in our pockets and high-speed Internet in the air: Well, we're living in it. "The third generation of data and voice communications -- the convergence of mobile phones and the Internet, high-speed wireless data access, intelligent networks, and pervasive computing -- will shape how we work, shop, pay bills, flirt, keep appointments, conduct wars, keep up with our children, and write poetry in the next century.
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OPEN DATA. APP. CROWDSOURCING. OPEN SOURCE. GAMIFICATION.