This document discusses emerging technologies and their impact on society. It mentions Web 2.0, push email, Twitter, and managing in the future year 2050. It also states that information technologies have stable properties that inevitably impact all people and organizations, and while resistance is possible, it is not sustainable and could even be dangerous.

1. Information Systems
Class 2
Living in 2009
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2. Web 2.0
*jibjab
Push email, a new paradigm

3. Twitter, what is it?

4. Twitter is growing fast
Twitter matters

5. Managing in 2050
*2050
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*party like it’s 1999
The Technological imperative
ITs have stable properties
These properties have inescapable effects
for all people and organizations
Resistance is possible, but untenable and
even dangerous