How the internet has changed time and space, from a modernist perspective.

At the beginning of the third millenium, how we view and experience space and time is very different from how it was viewed at the turn of the last century. The reason for this is modern technology - as modernisation and technology have progressed and inevitably changed, so too have the qualities of space and time. This has been no more apparent than in the development of the Internet, which has changed space and time …

…rst thirty years of the century over the next fifty was so great that it changed many aspects of life forever. Similarly, the internet age has already presented us with many spatial and temporal changes. While we only see what our position in time and space allows us to see, it is clear that these changes - like those of the Modernist era - will impact on future societies for some long time to come.