World Without Distance
August, 1962
World Without DistanceMost of the Energy expended in the history of the world has been used to move things from one place to another. For thousands upon thousands of years, the rate of movement was very slow -- less than two or three miles an hour, the pace of a walking man. Even the domestication of the horse did not raise this figure appreciably, for though a racehorse can exceed 40 miles an hour for very short periods, the main use of the horse has always been as a show-moving beast of burden...