Joseph Zitt writes with regard to my mentioning Howard Rheingold’s “smart mobs” idea:

Larry Niven, in a sense, predicted this in 1973. Linking it with teleportation, he called them “flash crowds”. It’s already in the Jargon dictionary

Yikes. I even read that book lo these many years ago but didn’t make the connection. Thanks, Joseph.

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