Money moves around the world at the speed of light. Product cycles are measured in months, rather than in years.
People find it unremarkable to spend time on three different continents in the space of a week.
But Brand is worried. One thing that worries him is Moore's Law. But the doublings of speed and power that are under way now could cause the whole Web fun house to come crashing down. It's a self-accelerating system that makes itself go faster and faster and faster and faster. And if it's not framed properly, it will overleap itself, as Shakespeare would say.