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What's the name of the story?
His collection titled A Hole In Space (copyright 1974) contains two stories on this topic, but neither is titled "Flash Crowd" in the collection. They are:
1. "The Alibi Machine", published in Vertex, 1973.
2. "The Last Days of the Permanently Floating Riot Club".
People keep adding content to the flash mob and flash crowd entries stating that the concept of "flash crowds" created by Larry Niven is equivalent to the concept of "flash mobs."
These concepts are very different: news events draw people to flash crowds, messages passed around for the sole sake of starting flash mobs draw people to flash mobs. Flash crowds are enabled and encouraged by teleportation, this is obviously not the case with flash mobs. Flash crowds are spontaneous and aren't sparked by an organizer; flash mobs (or at least, their initiation) are planned ahead. The "flash" in flash mobs indicates quick gathering, short duration, quick dispersal; the "flash" in flash crowds indicates instantaneous speed of travel to a place. Flash crowds in the story lasted a long time, flash mobs by definition are very short, usually less than 20 minutes long.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheesebikini ( talk • contribs)
Yes, both terms contain the word "flash" and both involve groups of people, but they're very different concepts and claims that they're equivalent are factual errors.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheesebikini ( talk • contribs)
If someone can provide a notable third party document, study, or analytical comparison that links flash mobs to flash crowds, then please do so, otherwise it should be dismissed as original research. Frankly they have very little in common aside from the fact that people assemble rapidly -- but then again, so do lots of other words share that similarity: stampede, swarm, etc. etc. Mkdw talk 07:25, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
kgrr talk 22:48, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
I am voting for moving the web-/network-phenomenon to the page Flash crowd -- Keilandreas ( talk) 08:59, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
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What's the name of the story?
His collection titled A Hole In Space (copyright 1974) contains two stories on this topic, but neither is titled "Flash Crowd" in the collection. They are:
1. "The Alibi Machine", published in Vertex, 1973.
2. "The Last Days of the Permanently Floating Riot Club".
People keep adding content to the flash mob and flash crowd entries stating that the concept of "flash crowds" created by Larry Niven is equivalent to the concept of "flash mobs."
These concepts are very different: news events draw people to flash crowds, messages passed around for the sole sake of starting flash mobs draw people to flash mobs. Flash crowds are enabled and encouraged by teleportation, this is obviously not the case with flash mobs. Flash crowds are spontaneous and aren't sparked by an organizer; flash mobs (or at least, their initiation) are planned ahead. The "flash" in flash mobs indicates quick gathering, short duration, quick dispersal; the "flash" in flash crowds indicates instantaneous speed of travel to a place. Flash crowds in the story lasted a long time, flash mobs by definition are very short, usually less than 20 minutes long.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheesebikini ( talk • contribs)
Yes, both terms contain the word "flash" and both involve groups of people, but they're very different concepts and claims that they're equivalent are factual errors.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheesebikini ( talk • contribs)
If someone can provide a notable third party document, study, or analytical comparison that links flash mobs to flash crowds, then please do so, otherwise it should be dismissed as original research. Frankly they have very little in common aside from the fact that people assemble rapidly -- but then again, so do lots of other words share that similarity: stampede, swarm, etc. etc. Mkdw talk 07:25, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
kgrr talk 22:48, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
I am voting for moving the web-/network-phenomenon to the page Flash crowd -- Keilandreas ( talk) 08:59, 19 October 2010 (UTC)