With air transport comes a further disruption of the old 
town-country complex that had occurred with wheel and road. 
With the plane the cities began to have the same slender 
relation to human needs that museums do. They became 
corridors of showcases echoing the departing forms of 
industrial assembly lines. The road is, then, used less and less 
for travel, and more and more for recreation. The traveller now 
turns to the airways, and thereby ceases to experience the act 
of travelling. As people used to say that an ocean liner might 
as well be a hotel in a big city, the jet traveller, whether he is 
over Tokyo or New York, might just as well be in a cocktail 
lounge so far as travel experience is concerned. He will begin to 
travel only after he lands.

     Meantime, the countryside, as oriented and fashioned by 
plane, by highway, and by electric information gathering, tends