Promises promises!

The article in the Economist on the Mobil Internet demonstrates how young the internet, and mobile technology in general, truly still is. And because it is in its infancy, any future predictions about its success are bound to be inflated… Besides according to people just a decade or so ago, we’re supposed to be in flying cars right now and living underwater - right?

I thought the trends mentioned in the “communication, not commerce” section were the most relevant and can even be linked to our field - political management, and essentially political communication. Predominantly because it is very important to remember that while more and more people are plugging into a dot.com lifestyle, where they are on the computer more often than not throughout their day, they are NOT spending all that time becoming better informed about current events, they are just “talking” to one another. An increase in internet use IS NOT directly proportionate to an increase in interest among the citizenry about your candidate or any particular issue (with the exception of Brittney Spears on 24/7 bump watch).