THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
then the NANOTECHNOLOG IES of futurist instantaneity would soon lead to loss of memory and abandonment of H istory's credibility to the detri ment of all co nfidence in the future. The contemporary world of the globalized S ingle Market would then end in a POLAR IN ERTIA of unequalled atemporary passivity, an i nertia of the real i nstant . And that i n ertia would , th i s time, totally shatter t h e n o t i o n o f t h e duration and sedentary stab ility of planetary settlement, since the inertia of the i nt e ractive instant would soo n completely o utdo the fixed-property i nertia of activity in the real space of hu manity's routine d a i l y l i fe .
A s for the geographic and, so, ' spatial ' aspect of th is development, seen thro ugh the anamorphosis in competition mentioned above, i t would be flagged by loss of confidence in the notion of Progress and by the overwhelmi ng prevalence of delocalization of production - but also of research and development . For, U RBAN EXODUS, in t h e twenty- first centu ry, will o ne day reproduce the agony of RURAL EXO D US , in the age of the industrial revol ution in transpo rt and lead to the headlong rush - only, in closed circuit- of a general exodus of humanity.
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