I want to pause for a moment and remember Richard Meier -- not the architect, but the urban planner and theorist -- at Berkeley, etc, during the 1960s-1980s.
His seminal book was A Communications Theory of Urban Growth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1962. Chuck Tilly turned me on to this during my 1963-1967 Harvard grad days. I remember, though, over coffee at Berkeley in 1986!! that he repeatedly told me that mobile phones were a key to third world development for the infrastructure reasons that we are "discovering" now. Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:30:28 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [mobile-society] Mobile phones in India and Mobile sandwich art > > Hello all, > > Here is a link to an interesting article on mobile telephony in India. > The structure of the situation is quite interesting there and it seems > that it is vary inexpensive to subscribe and use a mobile. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/business/worldbusiness/15cell.html?_r= > 1&ref=asia&oref=slogin > > On a less serious note here is a link to Jib Jab and their take on > mobile phone sandwich art. > > http://www.jibjab.com/jokebox/jokebox/jibjab/id/137260/jokeid/47050 > > > > > Rich L. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
