At the end of this
text we are told about the relativity theory, aren´t we? But the text also
talks about the technology researches from that time, the relationship between
technology and society,….
I don´t remember
in which part of “Remembrance of Things Past “ Proust talks about his first
telephone conversations and how surprised he was about them.
Talking about
technological developments is not very popular in books, films or other works
of art nowadays . So, we can find little reference to blogs, e-mails, mobile
phones,… in current books or films and this is quite remarkable.
We realised this as soon as the vehicle,
starting off, covered in one bound twenty paces of an excellent horse.
Distances are only the relation of space to time and vary with that
relation. We express the difficulty that we have in getting to a place in a
system of miles or kilometres which becomes false as soon as that difficulty
decreases. Art is modified by it also, when a village which seemed to be in a
different world from some other village becomes its neighbour in a landscape
whose dimensions are altered. In any case the information that there may
perhaps exist a universe in which two and two make five and the straight line
is not the shortest way between two points would have astonished
