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comment by cliffelam
cliffelam  ·  4406 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Travel times across the US from 1800 onwards

Well, with video skype you can kind of avoid the trip alltogether for most things....

I guess the other thing to consider is: what can you do on the journey. With in-air wifi the airline trip has dropped to only a few hours of non-work time. So in some ways the 8+ hours to go to the other coast only has a "cost" of two or three.

-XC





hiss  ·  4405 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Seems as if we'll take a similar path to space travel, given much of the talk of the past few weeks. Simulation and simulacra as opposed to The Real Thing. I think we're only at the beginning of the age of "authentic experience", and wonder what that'll mean for the value of same place/same time interaction.