reflection on Smart Mobs

I just finished Smart Mobs and I have no idea what I thought of the book as a whole. I'll be honest every time I sat down to read it, it felt like work. Reading it around a chapter at a time was boring. I only got into like two chapters and thought to myself while I was reading that it was interesting. However, now that I look back on the book as a whole I don't feel badly towards it at all.

I actually believe that it opened my eyes to our future of technology. I would have never sat down to read a book like that or taken the time to think about how technology effects humans, their interaction, and our future. Having read this I feel as though I at least have taken the time to learn some stuff. If I hadn't read it I don't feel as though I would pay attention to many technologies that will become reality in our lives.

The book had many positives and negatives that allowed you personally to weight how you feel about technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones. I talk on the phone and text many times throughout the day. I couldn't imagine not having one. I have a long distance relationship while at school and not being able to talk to my boyfriend every day would really effect our relationship and my day in general. On the negative side I spend to much time on it and do find myself ignoring others because I'm so into what I'm doing on a little device. I believe it enhances social networks, but takes away from personal face to face connections. As for the Internet it's an ever changing technology. Businesses are always trying to come up with the fastest Internet at an expensive cost. But can you live without it this day an age? Being in college I don't feel like I could not have the Internet. It's a part of my everyday life.
All in all this book pointed out our futures and has made people think about what this will really bring about, how we are going to deal with it, and if we are going to participate in it. What we do now, as Rheingold says, and what we know will affect our futures.