Complexity Digest 2006.22 - 02

May-29-2006

Web Cast :

6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium

Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/06UCS/

The Next Wave Of The Web, Nature News Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: The biggest theme is certainly (...) "the device formerly known as the mobile phone". The imminence of wireless broadband for mobiles means we are about to enter the phase of mobile and ubiquitous computing. It is also going to bring the Internet to the hundreds of millions of people who have no Internet access. We are talking now about creating mobile phones - devices - for $15 dollars apiece. (...)

Companies like Amazon are now using automated software to farm out paying computing tasks. The Web allows you to build a social workforce.