EDUC 628-Spring-08

The article Mob Rules begins with the scenario of the fisherman of Kerala buying a GSM handset to communicate to the various ports to find out where he could best sell his fish.  This wireless communication can also benefit the poorest of people in their fish and farming markets.  Pesce talks about wireless phones and networks where he points out that the population of cell phone carriers will soon reach half of humanity in 2008, with the Nokia 1100 being one of the most successful marketing cell phones that supports this prediction because it is cheap and can text.

 Mark Pesce did a fine job of putting the technology of wireless networks into perspective for me.  I actually understood most of it.  I even went to Pirate Bay and joined and then cancelled my membership—because then realized that I don’t know enough yet –for that.  The RISC CPU running a custom version of LINUX, by Meraki, really showed me how the mob rules.