March 24, 2006

Flash Surfing-- Media Technology --

Long before flash mobs became the phonebooth-stuffing of the naughts, science fiction author Larry Niven speculated how the invention of teleportation would cause sudden flash crowds of gawkers to appear wherever a newsworthy event is taking place. Over at Searchblog, John Battelle suggests we're bound to see something similar happen in couch-potato-land once channel surfers can automatically see what show or media event everyone else is watching...

Posted by bug to Media Technology at March 24, 2006 4:35 PM | TrackBack
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