Haunting account of the last phone calls of the passengers on the PA-crashed flight.

“He said, ‘Deena.’ And I said, ‘Are you OK?’ And he said, ‘No.’ And I knew then that he was right in the middle of it,” she said. “He said, ‘I’m on the airplane, the airplane that’s been hijacked and they’ve already knifed a guy. They’re saying they have a bomb. Please call the authorities.”‘

The most amazing, futuristic thing about the Current Situation is the amount of civilian-generated content and coverage, from amateur photos and videos to first-person accounts to grassroots survivor-lists to the passengers themselves, making wireless calls to the ground as they prepare to rush the cockpit. The world has changed. The filpside of the Orwellian nightmare of the panoptic surveillance society is the voracious data-gathering and republishing of the distributed world, a weird utopia of ubiquitous information and observation. Link Discuss