As we are witness to increasingly more integrated systems of technology, bringing
together basic activities of talking, watching, listening, writing, and moving about the
planet into one device (e.g. mobile phone, personal computer, workplace and home
based communications centers), our experiences of space and time are dissolving.
What separates past, present, and future may not require distinctness for us as the
century proceeds. Equally evident, our sense of distance from local, regional,
continental to global may appear less necessary to require a sense of place and
orientation to be an active participant in the global organization.