Speed makes it equally a material and immaterial thing. It appears to be both accelerating and motionless at the same time. We re not sure yet whether this extends our information of the image or eclipses it. Our whole century has been in transit, a wind tunnel of pressures making cities drift weightlessly in electronic ether. Super high velocity of airplanes and airwaves produces instantaneousness.
Places then become placeless.
The tyranny of distance, when cultural goods like books and new hairstyles inched across the continent, is in the process of being replaced by a kind of tyranny of proximity. The world has collapsed into a placeless interface, a zone of transit, where everything is instantly available. Place becomes placeless and yet no place is enclosed by its boundaries. Nothing narrows a person more than travel. We can travel these days simply by changing the channels.