Newt's Futurism Applied to Campaigns

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler's "Third Wave," Gingrich understands the empowerment that electronic interconnectedness gives each potential voter. The advent of the "iPod" society allows individuals to hear candidates and policy proposals when they want to on the medium they want to without commercials or interruptions. Applied to presidential elections, a continually information-driven society has greater freedom in the ability to recognize, highlight, and showcase political candidates. Thus, Gingrich's statements last Friday should come as no surprise. Especially the last line.

“This current model is a consultant full-employment system,” Gingrich said. “We live in an age of iPods, cell phones with cameras, blackberries, laptop computers, blogs, television, 24-hour radio. You should be able to have a national campaign make a serious decision for president in nine weeks.”


That means it's up to the technologically-enabled grass roots (us!) to create momentum for Gingrich's candidacy.

Posted by Pat McFawn at 2:12 AM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

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Pat,

I found an interview conducted by Newt of Alvin Toffler here:

http://www.booktv.org/ram/AfterWords/0606/arc_btv060406_4.ram

Its in Real Audio format (which is hardly used anymore though)

Posted by: Matt Keller | February 20, 2007 2:41 AM