Mobile and Open: A Manifesto
Howard Rheingold,
TheFeature,
Jan 07, 2005
One of the differences between mobile computing and the desktop kind is that mobile hardware is generally contained in a sealed package - you don't open up your mobile phone and reinstall the operating system, for example. Under such conditions, notes Howard Rheingold, "Only a cockeyed optimist would forecast an open, user-driven, entrepreneurial future for the mobile Internet." Still, "This should not prevent us from trying, however. Sometimes, envisioning the way things ought to be can inspire people to work at making it that way. That's what manifestos are for." Exactly.
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