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Military aviator Chuck Yeager left the earth and flew faster than the speed of sound only to return to the exact same place his flight began. Why? Why travel in a circle? And why would anyone need to outrun sound?
The fear of others.
Yeager's mission was not to outrun sound in the abstract. It was to make possible a world absent of the noise of others. To boldly go where no man has gone before: a place necessarily devoid of other human beings.
Like the environment of computer generated images, the world at Mach 2 is empty, inhuman.
Speed is silence.
Inside the cockpit, the portable office, the commuter's automobile, only time talks. Only the clock speaks.
In this artifical space of absolute time, nature is also silenced. We no longer live and work according to the seasons nor the time of day. The rooster has been replaced by the alarm. We automatically answer the ringing telephone.
Military aviator Chuck Yeager left the earth and flew faster than the speed of sound only to return to the exact same place his flight began. Why? Why travel in a circle? And why would anyone need to outrun sound?
The fear of others.
Yeager's mission was not to outrun sound in the abstract. It was to make possible a world absent of the noise of others. To boldly go where no man has gone before: a place necessarily devoid of other human beings.
Like the environment of computer generated images, the world at Mach 2 is empty, inhuman.
Speed is silence.
Inside the cockpit, the portable office, the commuter's automobile, only time talks. Only the clock speaks.
In this artifical space of absolute time, nature is also silenced. We no longer live and work according to the seasons nor the time of day. The rooster has been replaced by the alarm. We automatically answer the ringing telephone.
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