For those of you who don't know me, i have a dry sense of humour.
I spoke to Chris Brogan at VON 2007 and agreed that his post on new workplaces and social media will eliminate the need for traditional workspaces, and went one step further, stating these modes of change would greatly reduce automobile traffic, aiport traffic, travel, and subway / public transportation, therefore, eliminating terrorism because of a lack of targets, ha ha what an incredibly simplistic thought? Put a cape and a mask on social networking please ? ( my true mimbo shines ! )
(i give credit to Chris for Twitter linking workplaces of the future on his blog)
http://chrisbrogan.com/social-media-inside-the-firewall/
Fewer cars and less transportation equals less greehouse gasses and better air quality for all. Is it more likely that social networking and easy communication will work quicker to clean up our planet than government(s) political mandated or corporate smackdowns? Will social networks help eradicate terrorism?
Why?
Saving money is the reason why many corporations will turn to social networking and current tools like Twitter, FaceBook, and Skype to name a few. ( and we are heading into an 'R' word ). So i believe we as a whole are bound to depend on it with every point drop in the DOW. And that could mean many more people using these tools at home, working from home. Look at what happened to centralized call centres because of the relatively free use of skype? In an instant things can change.
On to my second conclusion about terrorism, with fewer people using public and mass transit especially at regular rush hour times terrorist elements will have less and less attractive targets. Take away as many temptations as possible.
Attempts to frighten the populus will have greatly reduced impact if individuals have a good support network of friends and loved ones nearby or apparently nearby and easy to communicate with. A well informed up to date public are more likely to rise to occasion to respond and prevent attacks than dozy TV watchers that only see colour warnings on the boob toob. So once again high benefits for social networking peeps.
There are many ways that online social networks can greatly improve our lives past the obvious friend making associations. Perhaps, better one-to-one communication goes a long way to solving some larger problems as well?
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only one question then - cyberterrorism will climb - what's in place to combat that?
Good point Mobasoft. Good and bad, everyone morphs to meet the changing landscape. The more communication, the more social network connections that we have the better our chances are for minimizing impacts of all types of abuses and crimes. now and in the future.
Also cyberterrorism is more difficult to pull off than strapping explosives to a person and walking into a train station.
If all of our lines of communications are downed by sabotage or what have you, do you think that a pre social networking, Web 2.0 society would be better at dealing with adversity?
the comment deleted was me screwing up.
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