On a quest as old as civilization itself, people everywhere have been in a never-ending pursuit of ways to overcome physical shortcomings; like no known animal before it, man has relentlessly sought ways to bend the laws of nature in his favour. First using crude tools to compensate for physical limitations, slowly growing ever more complex as we developed; soon looking for ways to shorten travel and communication times - evolving from foot to horseback …
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…our lives, but in reality only open ourselves up to be more vulnerable than ever. Works cited Light, Jennifer. "From City Space to Cyber Space". Virtual Geographies: Bodies. Space and Relations. Tomlinson, John. "Mediated Communication and Cultural Experience". In Globalization and Culture. University of Chicago, 1999. Van de Vall, Renee. "Immersion and Distance in Virtual spaces". Mobilizing Place, Placing mobility: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World, ed Ginette Verstaete and Tim Cresswell. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994.