By: Bruce Lewin

Bruce Lewin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:38:25 +0000

Better off is one way of looking at it, but I think there is also something that runs in parallel to social network technologies…
In general, I think that much of the social network technologies tend to speed things up in terms of raising awareness, building (and dismantling!) relationships and generally getting closer to what an economist might call ‘perfect information’.
The fact that people are ‘satisfycing’ and are not ‘perfectly rational’ is perhaps best left for another time ;-)

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By: Bruce Lewin