Smart Mobbing

Increase in skills of local businesses, health practitioners, parents, educators, and activists to form ad hoc groups to break the rules and catalyze change.

Explore how this evolves in the 2020 Forecast in Networked Artisans and Open Sociability and Leadership.

Real World Application

Smart mobbing becomes a primary social-networking skill
Communities and families will become differentiated by their ability to catalyze collective action and mobilize resources for specific and targeted priorities. Smart mobs, self-organizing swarms, and other hybrid ad hoc groups will become familiar social forms that guide civic action and change in communities.