It could be a wave of collective sympathy for the technically downtrodden, those who are daunted not only by their home PC's but also by the inscrutable owner's manuals and long waits on telephone help lines as well.
In a spontaneous fad or mob action, participants usually copy the pattern of earlier incidents with which they are familiar, so that separate incidents in a wave of collective behaviour exhibit a similarity indicating the development of customary ways of rioting, or playing at a fad, and possibly even of panicking.
But I'd argue that what really drives the obsession is just the realization that pop-music innovation comes not from a series of Great Men as we've been taught (Bob Dylan and the Beatles did it all!), but that innovation comes most often in a tidal wave of collective creative fury.
After all, if the Council believes it can somehow create a family-friendly city with a wave of its collective hand, why not make it friendly for everyone?
Not as disconnected acts of charity, but as wave upon wave of caring, collective endeavour and compassion in action flowing from this moment, and this year, to 2015 and well beyond.
And Skinner believes creating a wave of such collectives would not be so simple.
Shock waves are the result not of collective behavior but of the failure of it.
I like the buzz of the dark, busy cockpit, all the producers and technicians intent on screens and consoles, the countdowns, the collective waves of emotion — nervousness and relief — as switches are thrown, segments successfully delivered, commercials correctly inserted.
That causes the waves to overlap and creates a kind of collective atom as predicted by Satyendra Bose and Albert Einstein in 1924.Since they were first made in 1995, Bose-Einstein condensates have become commonplace as experimental tools.
You know, the sort of polemics that started with, "So I've been trying to avoid posting one of these, but tomorrow could well be one of the most important days in our lifetime... .. Only, once the vote came through, bar an initial wave of "WTF", this collective passion seemed to dissipate.
