Telematics and ITs already suggest a new working arrangement for power. If these networks are where power now moves or circulates, this is to say something different than an observation about any distance between where power resides and an individual's location in space. We cannot continually discuss the importance of the 'continuous plane' of circulation within geographic discourse without coming to grips with the fact that the 'space' of power, metaphoric or concrete, has shifted. Space used to equal distance. In this sense, power is now in continual application, and is asserted and accessed by movement - here suggested to now take on both concrete and virtual forms.
Power is no longer most vulnerable when visible, but when it stops moving.
The ' space of continuous circulation' established by spatial technologies is really a conduit for messages that has emerged as an ironic center in and of itself, thereby challenging contentional understandings of how power works and how social relations are organized. Access to geographic information that might be of use, for example, to local community groups, might be available by world wide web and originally stored on a spatially- distant mainframe computer. Equally, however, corporate and other decisions impacting upon urban localities need not be made at the geographic center of any urban area, and indeed a GIS may contribute to centralizing decision making that may uniformly be applied to a variety of spatially discrete and socially distinct communities without regard to content. Each bus is equipped with a sensing device and two-way radio. All major intersections throughout the urban area are equipped with sensing devices which transmit the location of each bus to a central display that is monitored for bus headway and timetable adherence.