human interassociation tend to improve by acceleration. Speed, 
in turn, accentuates problems of form and structure. The older 
arrangements had not been made with a view to such speeds, 
and people begin to sense a draining-away of life values as they 
try to make the old physical forms adjust to the new and 
speedier movement. These problems, however, are not new. 
Julius Caesar’s first act upon assuming power was to restrict 
the night movement of wheeled vehicles in the city of Rome in 
order to permit sleep. Improved transport in the Renaissance 
turned the medieval walled towns into slums.

     Prior to the considerable diffusion of power through 
alphabet and papyrus, even the attempts of kings to extend 
their rule in spatial terms were opposed at home by the priestly 
bureaucracies. Their complex and unwieldy media of stone 
inscription made wide-ranging empires appear very dangerous