The mobile technofuture

Wired News reviews Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs - a book that claims "Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create." War and govern? That's quite a claim. He even goes one step further, and suggests being on time is no longer important to a Japanese youth generation that values connectedness above all.