A washingtonpost.com article from: millerk at nytimes.com

[Mark A Mandel]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Paul McFedries wrote:

#> "Flash crowd". The term was coined AFAIK by the sf author Larry Niven in
#> a short story, whose title I don't remember
#
#The story is called "Flash Crowd." It's part of a collection called "The
#Flight of the Horse."

"Quite simple. Too simple for a learned loremaster in these suspicious
days." ;-)\

-- Mark M.