Jonathan Schwartz - Participation Age, part 2
J. Schwartz:

If there is ten times the number of people using mobile handsets than PC's, these mobile handsets are becoming not simply a platform for receiving phone calls, but also for creating businesses, for creating content for the network and for creating opportunities whether they are economic, social or simply academic.

D.W:

It's not an information age thing, it's a conversational thing, a fundamental part of participation.

J. Schwartz:

You are more forward-thinking [...] it's not about providing information. For us the network is all about providing opportunities to participate, it's creating an opportunity to participate.

From Jonathan Schwartz, president, Sun Microsystems

June 21, 2005 David Weinberger: "We caught Jonathan Schwartz, president of Sun Microsystems, immediately after his talk at Supernova. He says that we're moving from the Information Age to the Participation Age. Since the Net has been participatory - at least when it comes to content - from the beginning, I try to find out what exactly marks the beginning of the new age. We also talk about whether business leaders really have to blog."