People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.
We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we're going to reject these devices.
The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.
Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.
Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.