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From: "Adam J. Thornton" <adam@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 02:41:31 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 06:43:56PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
> Prior discussions on this list (I think between Dr Cat and I) have
> raised mentioned the spectre of flash crowds. IIRC It was Arthur C
> Clarke who first coined (or at least brought it to popular
> conciousness) the term in one of his pieces dealing with the
> implications of readily available matter transmitters and high speed
> inter-personal communications.
Larry Niven.
Pedanticism at work.
Adam
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