The Feature Archives (Build 20120208060813) 38 Articles by Howard Rheingold from The Feature Archives (2001-2005) Mobile Phones, Ritual Interaction and Social Capital By Howard Rheingold, Thu Apr 21, 2005 One scientist who observes the way people use mobile phones suspects "mobile telephone communication seems to be better at developing the social fabric than does PC-based Internet interaction.
" But, he cautions, the new fabric might be too tightly knit in some ways. Email, Scale-Free Networks, and the Mobile Internet By Howard Rheingold, Thu Apr 07, 2005 Using e-mail rather than SMS as the messaging medium for mobile phones has made mobile Internet services in Japan more successful than in the West, says an industry expert -- a claim supported by recently discovered mathematical properties of networks. It's All About The Mobile Internet. Mobile and Open: A Manifesto By Howard Rheingold, Wed Jan 05 08:00:00 GMT 2005 Only a cockeyed optimist would forecast an open, user-driven, entrepreneurial future for the mobile Internet.
This should not prevent us from trying, however. Sometimes, envisioning the way things ought to be can inspire people to work at making it that way.
The Future of Mobile Media. Mobile Media in the Modern Mecca. Mobile Swarms and Smartmobs. The Future of Mobile Devices. The Consequences of the Mobile Revolution. Mobile Communities. Redefining Mobile Infrastructure. Mobile Geolocation and RFID. Mobile and the Developing World.