MSNBC: How smart mobs coped with a massacre - College’s response to tragedy illustrated how wired world now works

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"The way students and teachers passed along information during the Virginia Tech massacre — via cellphone videos and campus-watching Webcams, via text messages and Web bulletin boards — demonstrates how the wired world has changed in the 21st century, one of the prophets of the new age says.

Back in 2002, technology guru Howard Rheingold predicted that the telephone, the Internet and the personal computer would merge into a media form that would be used in ways their inventors could not have conceived, in a book titled "Smart Mobs."

"'Smart Mobs' was about the future,” Rheingold told MSNBC.com. “Now we’re living it.”"

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