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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