Changing the way people work or behave - for the better - or give them more understanding about things they can change. - Meetup.com is getting people out and

Changing the way people work or behave - for the better - or give them more understanding about things they can change. - Meetup.com is getting people out and into social situations with lots of benefits - Google maps helps people to find things more quickly without getting lost - Ebay and Craigslist changed the whole value structure of entire classes of goods and enabled a lot of people to do useful work and earn money they couldn't have before. - Reddit and related sites are the office-worker's version of talk radio. I'm thinking they're going to have a noticeable affect on politics, hopefully for the better (besides creating a significant drop in productivity of the average programmer.) - Google. I'm not sure how social networking sites fit in all of that. But the revolution isn't anywhere near over yet. - Government http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/why_congress_ne.html http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/why_congress_ne.ht... - Medicine - Portable medical records, better understanding of outcomes and genetics can make us all healthier. - Business - People waste way too much time in offices moving data from one place to another and then trying to balance back to the original. Businesses go broke and partners sue each other because they didn't understand or keep track of or share information. People waste money and time because they didn't understand trends unfolding around them. And there's a lot more. And then there's all that money, too.