U nedostatku pametnijega, imam copy&paste sa boingboing:
JetBlue emergency landing: life imitates Snowcrash
From Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash:
[Hiro] turns off all of the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern. Time to get immersed in Reality, like all the people around him.
And from CNN:
The airliner circled Southern California for hours, crippled by a faulty landing gear, while inside its cabin 140 passengers watched their own life-and-death drama unfolding on live television. [...] [Pia] Varma, 23, and other passengers said the plane's monitors carried live DirectTV broadcasts on the plane's problems until just a few minutes before landing at Los Angeles International Airport.
Snowcrash ili "potpuni raspad" kako je to Algoritam preveo je knjiga Neala Stephensona koja je proglašena Neuromancerom devedesetih, a za one koji nisu znali Neuromancer je knjiga koja je po prvi puta (u osamdesetima) definirala pojmove poput cyberspacea, avatara i tome slično. Na mojoj sada već preopterećenoj polici za knjige postoji posebno mjesto za antologijske knjige, a neuromancer i snowcrash su definitivno dvije od tih (skupa s nedavno spomenutim America gods).
Ako niste još pročitali Snowcrash tada to morate učiniti vrlo brzo jer je to jedna doista dobra i zabavna knjiga (iako, preporučam originalnu verziju jer je tijekom prijevoda knjiga izgubila dosta na snazi). Snowcrash se dobrim dijelom bavi i analogijama koje bi se mogle rastegnuti i na blogiranje, tako da bi i sebe lagano mogli pronaći u toj knjizi.