For starters, dead media put things like digital TV, push media, CU-SeeMe, search engines, Web directories, intelligent agents, and other forms of new media into perspective. By performing autopsies on fresh media corpses and unearthing the fossil records of extinct information systems, you can understand how we got here and where things could be headed. One of the great things about sociomedia is that it emerges whenever people with shared interests and the ability to communicate are inspired by an idea. All it takes to get sociomedia started is an infectious idea, such as Sterling and Kadrey's proposal, and people will automatically assemble into a hive and collaborate. A good starting place is Bureauslandschaft .
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