With the advent of faster travel , distance has less effect than it did in the past, except where places previously connected by now-abandoned railways, for example, have fallen off the beaten path . Advances in communications technology, such as telegraphs, telephones, broadcasting, and internet, have further decreased the effects of distance .
With the advent of faster travel and communications technology, such as telegraphs, telephones, broadcasting, and internet, the effects of distance have been reduced, a trend known as time-space convergence.. Exceptions include places previously connected by now-abandoned railways, for example, have fallen off the beaten path .
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, distance has less effect than it did in the past, except where
and communications technology, such as telegraphs, telephones, broadcasting, and internet, the effects of distance have been reduced, a trend known as time-space convergence.. Exceptions include
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. Advances in communications technology, such as telegraphs, telephones, broadcasting, and internet, have further decreased the effects of distance