It is not the automobile as a tool that increases the time we spend in travel, but the ffect of automotive technology on our conduct - the dynamic, narrative aspect of our community. Our towns and cities change shape and size. Workspace and homespace become increasingly separated. We begin thinking differently about travel, about time and distance. What is proximate may no longer e what is intimate. What was once too far away to bother wanting may well become a current rage - something we will not live without, simply because we need not. p. 53
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Date: 2007-11-10 08:57 am (UTC)==
cf "The world is flat". for a aprice.