Living in the digital ecosystem
For a period on Monday morning, #MediaLabTalk was a trending topic on Twitter — thanks in large part to those who had gathered to hear LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman speak at MIT, both in person and online. (Trending topics are those that Twitter has algorithmically determined to be the hottest of the moment.)And that connection between the physical and digital worlds was a major theme of Hoffman’s talk, titled “How to Benefit 100 Million People: Designing and Building Human Ecosystems For Networks and Marketplaces,” where Hoffman, fresh off his company’s initial public offering, spoke about the increase in data that humans are generating on a daily basis. Video: Watch the webcast of Monday's event In fact, as Hoffman spoke, two large screens projected live tweets posted by audience members and webcast viewers. The updates included quotes from Hoffman’s talk, added mere seconds after they were uttered, and questions from the audience,...