A recent report indicates that people who buy computers today are more interested in T''''''heInternet and the SocialCommmunity than they are in using the computer for computing. 

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* Y''''''ouTubeVideo --Usenet guru ErikFair, virtual worlds pioneer and Yahoo! Community Strategist RandyFarmer, LinkedIn founder ReidHoffman, and Six Apart co-founder MenaTrott, together with top Wall Street Journal columnist KaraSwisher, discuss fascinating personal stories and perspectives about social computing: yesterday, today and tomorrow. 
** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZJvgR3NM18
* Easy connections brought about by cheap devices, modular content, and shared computing resources are having a profound impact on our global economy and social structure. Individuals increasingly take cues from one another rather than from institutional sources like corporations, media outlets, religions, and political bodies.
** http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,38772,00.html