Global/Local

What makes something local? It seems as time goes on, the range of local has been expanded. Centuries ago, most people never traveled outside a five mile radius from their homes their entire lives, and they probably didn't consider anything outside their small community to be local. With advancements in transportation, the range of local has increased. People began to identify their local with their city, not just their neighborhood; their state, not just their city; and so on. Now things can be transported to anywhere from anywhere on the globe. Is globalization a product of growing and merging locals? Is globalization a way of localizing everything? Will the day come when we identify our local as our planet, or even our solar system?

Electronic Worlds

Time is usually the constant domain by which things are a function (growth vs. time, distance vs. time; almost everything is a function of the "simple measure" of time). In Mr. Willoughby's lecture, he mentioned time as a function of technology stating that when technology was mechanical, time was linear, and now that technology is electric, time is circular (a cycle of analysing and improving). How does a line become a circle? Perhaps time started off linear when we were following herds and gathering berries, and reached its limit. Then time became logarithmic when we advanced to mechanical, and then it reached its limit, and is now circular with an electrical technology.

Question: When everything has been analyzed and improved to the fullest, what does time become, or does it remain a circle whose radius grows infinitely or shrinks into a point? What type of technology brings this change? Is another type of technology possible? Will we become supernatural, and will time become defined as a point?