Re: [-empyre-] RE: Mobile Media debate

[Simon Taylor <swht@clear.net.nz>]

Marina Vishmidt writes:
> business would
> collapse in a truly frictionless field (as would anything - basic
> physics)

I'm not so sure that frictionless-ness in the extensive field already
trammelled by the flows of global capital is not already in progress as one
of its goals.
i.e. increased speed of transfer - beyond physical limitations - entails
both a progressive reduction in friction and a dematerialisation - in order
that notions like ubiquity may be advanced - another 'work in progress'.
The appeal of technology has something to do with the appearance it gives of
having overcome natural physical laws - the mirror-struckedness of the
tool-maker.

yours
simon taylor