After the bombs had exploded on the London Underground on the morning of 7 July 2005, there were no immediate claims of responsibility. People did not know who had set off the bombs, how they had done it or why they had done it. This mass unknowingness set off a media chain reaction. London Underground closed its gates for the day. Travellers were forced on to crowded streets or makeshift commuter boats on the Thames. Mobile phone networks were overloaded with calls and shut down. TV broadcasters suspended their regular news programming and coveredthe event for 24 hours straight with no interruptions. Panic selling swelled on the London stock market. Is this what Virilio means by an ‘information bomb’? See http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Information_Bomb.html?id=D6jLeNAvFZkC&redir_esc=y