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The microprocessing
By admin | July 18, 2009
The microprocessing of everyday life (the daily products and processes affected by technology, computers, and automation) has changed the meaning of time, movement, and speed. It has changed almost all fields of space, especially of space in communication. Today, communication partners who are separated in space are brought together thanks to telecommunications. Through tele-presence, we can travel without ever leaving our original location. All locations can be potentially tele-present at one spot. The place that we perceive as tele-reality and the place where we do the perceiving are synchronous. Real proximity is replaced by the image of closeness. Real time prevails over real space. Space and time disconnect.
Accordingly, the status of the means of transportation is changing. As machines for reducing time, they have been rendered technologically obsolete by data transmissions, but they are gaining importance as machines for transportation. A fourfold increase in the volume of passengers is projected in air transportation for the next ten years, as well as a 50 percent decrease in flying time because of new generation of airplanes. Clearly, this time saving has reached a new limit, The earth is simply too small to allow flight speeds any faster than this. The acceleration and braking phases would eat up any extra time gained. The decisive problem no longer lies in increasing the speed, but instead in factors that were considered until recently as a matter of peripheral importance. Secondary factors in the past have become major obstacles today.
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