Rheingold talks about the potential threats of smart mobs on page 185 in Chapter 8. He lists three main ones which are: 1) Threats to liberty - government snooping on citizens. 2) Threats to quality of life - deteriorate communities. And 3) Threats to human dignity - the more we use machines to run our lives, the less humane we become. These are serious problems that we must face in order to make sure that they do not occur or our lives might end up becoming worse of then it is. This new technology could end up ruining us in the long run. One thing that could be done to fix some of these problems could be "safety nets" where people would monitor, warn, and aid each other by using wearing computers. "Surveillance will become a threat to liberty and dignity" as Rheingold states on page 188. If all of our movements are watched then there will be no such thing as privacy anymore and people rights of freedom will be taken away.
The book also points out that humans pay attention to other peoples facial expressions and tone of voice. With this information that we gather from other people "we make social decisions and life and death decisions" from page 192. With artificial intelligence it could be hard to determine these things and they would skew our judgements of people. On the following page the book refers to peoples time. It has been studied taht people have more leisure time in their day, but people say that they are busier, because it must be filled by something so that there is no lost time. Smart mobs have to compete with peoples time so that the people will use the new technology.
In the "posthuman era" artificial intellingence would lead to the abondonment of the human body. This would not be good because if we go to a world a AI and forget about the biological body it will effect us negativly.
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