Prague: Protest Against Nothing March 17, 2008
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Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Date: October, 2004
Number of Participants: Around 150
In this protest video, over a hundred people protest nothing with large white posters and blank leaflets.
Flash Mob 4000 Strong! April 20, 2007
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Location: London’s Victoria Station
Date: April 5th, 2007
Number of Participants: Over 4000!
4,000 flash mob dancers startle commuters at Victoria
More than 4,000 clubbers danced through the rush hour at Victoria station in Britain’s biggest flash mob stunt. Revellers responded to e-bulletins urging them to “dance like you’ve never danced before” at 6.53pm. There were knowing looks and giggles among the casually dressed crowd that gathered from 6.30pm, wearing earphones. A deafening 10-second countdown startled station staff and commuters before the concourse erupted in whoops and cheers. MP3 players and iPods emerged and the crowd danced wildly to their soundtracks in silence – for two hours.
Part 2 of the Video
Flash Mobs, a Grim Vision of the Future April 19, 2007
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Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx’s proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe’s drops as fertility falls. “Flashmobs” – groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists groups.
This is the world in 30 years’ time envisaged by a Ministry of Defence team responsible for painting a picture of the “future strategic context” likely to face Britain’s armed forces. It includes an “analysis of the key risks and shocks”. Rear Admiral Chris Parry, head of the MoD’s Development, Concepts & Doctrine Centre which drew up the report, describes the assessments as “probability-based, rather than predictive”.
The 90-page report comments on widely discussed issues such as the growing economic importance of India and China, the militarisation of space, and even what it calls “declining news quality” with the rise of “internet-enabled, citizen-journalists” and pressure to release stories “at the expense of facts”. It includes other, some frightening, some reassuring, potential developments that are not so often discussed.
Technology
By 2035, an implantable “information chip” could be wired directly to the brain. A growing pervasiveness of information communications technology will enable states, terrorists or criminals, to mobilise “flashmobs”, challenging security forces to match this potential agility coupled with an ability to concentrate forces quickly in a small area.
Cosplay Flash Mob Ends In Police Raid! April 11, 2007
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Location: Japan
Date: April 8th, 2007
Number of Participants: around 50
Japanese cosplayers (anime costume hobbyists) met in the middle of Akihabara, Tokyo’s nerd-mecca to perform a flash mob style dance routine. The video is really cool but the participants scatter once the cops show up.
