to become once more the nomadic trackless area that 
preceded the wheel. The beatniks gather on the sands to 
meditate haiku .

     The principal factors in media impact on existing social 
forms are acceleration and disruption. Today the acceleration 
tends to be total, and thus ends space as the main factor in 
social arrangements. Toynbee sees the acceleration factor as 
translating the physical into moral problems, pointing to the 
antique road crowded with dog carts, wagons, and rickshaws 
as full of minor nuisance, but also minor dangers. Further, as 
the forces impelling traffic mount in power, there is no more 
problem of hauling and carrying, but the physical problem is 
translated into a psychological one as the annihilation of space 
permits easy annihilation of travellers as well. This principle 
applies to all media study. All means of interchange and of