Open Sky, Part 2

Virilio's Open Sky makes several interesting suggestions about the notions of space and time and the way that these are affected by modern technologies, but I just think that he is far too cynical in his approach to these new realities of our world. While there are undeniably negative effects, he fixates too solely on them and gives them too much power. In Part 2, he discusses the effect of global media on physical space, and his claims are pretty outrageous.

"But the tragic thing in this temporal perspective is that what is thereby polluted, fundamentally damaged, is no longer just the immediate future, the sense that the environment is missing: in a word, the death of geography."

Geography is hardly dying with the use of global media, and it is a little extreme to assume that digital interactions will completely replace ones occurring in the physical world. While technology is seemingly making the world feel smaller, geography and physical space are still immutable realities.