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Looking back at what Living Networks got right 20 years ago

Trends in the Living Networks

For many years my reputation and credibility as a futurist has been significantly supported by my 2002 book Living Networks , which anticipated many developments of the last two decades, including pointing to the rise of social networks and micro-messaging before any of today’s social platforms existed.

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Twitter disables video in Trump retweet after copyright complaint from Linkin Park

TechSpot

On Saturday, Trump retweeted a video that had been uploaded by White House social media director Dan Scavino a day earlier. The campaign-style clip featured Linken Park's 2002 hit single 'In the End,' and the Nu-metal giants weren't pleased.

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The controversy over TikTok and Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America,” explained

Vox

CNN/Getty Images Why bin Laden’s 2002 letter became the latest TikTok moral panic. The panic over the letter is just the latest in a long line of these sorts of social media-driven scares about the dangers of the internet, which tended to create a false sense of frenzy. A still from a 1998 interview with Osama Bin Laden. |

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Reality check: intelligence agencies have been using social network analysis since the 1990s

Trends in the Living Networks

Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. I fail to understand why this is big news, since US intelligence agencies have been using social network analysis (SNA) for domestic purposes since the 1990s, and likely even before that. I have been focused on networks since long before I wrote Living Networks in 2002.

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Former Facebook engineers lead Seattle-based investment firm backing data-focused startups

GeekWire

They are all former Facebook engineering leaders who worked at the social media giant more than a decade ago. He previously was a data warehouse manager at Netflix from 2002 to 2007. ” Data Tech Fund, which launched in 2021, is headquartered in Seattle but its four general partners are based across the world.

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Reflections on the early days of social networking as LinkedIn reaches 100 million users

Trends in the Living Networks

While I closely followed the social networking space at the time, I didn’t join many. When I was writing Living Networks in 2002 there were no true social networking applications in existence. The basic principle was inviting friends to connect, and using that to find the quickest social path to people you wanted to meet.

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Nerfies Might Be the Future of Selfies, Letting Your Friends Judge You on Social Media in Full 3D

Gizmodo

Ever since cameras first existed people have been pointing the lens at themselves to snap so-called selfies—a term first coined back in 2002. At this point they’re long overdue for an upgrade, so a team of researchers have created what could be the next-generation of selfies : easy to capture 3D models of yourself… Read more.

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