http://anthropik.com/2005/10/the-spirit-of-st-louis/ se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenki Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:50:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://anthropik.com/2005/10/the-spirit-of-st-louis/#comment-21291 ChandraShakti Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:59:44 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2005/10/the-spirit-of-st-louis/#comment-21291 Lindburg made the first SOLO non-stop transatlantic flight. Lindburg made the first SOLO non-stop transatlantic flight.

]]> http://anthropik.com/2005/10/the-spirit-of-st-louis/#comment-12822 The Anthropik Network » Spirit of Place Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:35:52 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2005/10/the-spirit-of-st-louis/#comment-12822 [...] While traveling to St. Louis, MO by air last October, I remarked on the state of airline travel: As the price of international sales increases, international sales themselves will see the diminishing side of a marginal return curve. Corporations willing and able to operate on a more local scale will find themselves able to out-compete enormous competitors in a thousand specialized niches. When every niche is filled by a local analog, the multinational corporation will find little room to insert itself, and justify its existence. The franchise flourished not by providing quality, but by providing familiarity to the traveler. It has no place in a world with no more travelers. [...] […] While traveling to St. Louis, MO by air last October, I remarked on the state of airline travel: As the price of international sales increases, international sales themselves will see the diminishing side of a marginal return curve. Corporations willing and able to operate on a more local scale will find themselves able to out-compete enormous competitors in a thousand specialized niches. When every niche is filled by a local analog, the multinational corporation will find little room to insert itself, and justify its existence. The franchise flourished not by providing quality, but by providing familiarity to the traveler. It has no place in a world with no more travelers. […]

]]> http://anthropik.com/2005/10/the-spirit-of-st-louis/#comment-2278 Robert Firth Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:34:36 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2005/10/the-spirit-of-st-louis/#comment-2278 Minor correction: the first non-stop transatlantic flight was made by Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown on 14/15 June 1919. Minor correction: the first non-stop transatlantic flight
was made by Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown
on 14/15 June 1919.

]]> http://anthropik.com/2005/10/the-spirit-of-st-louis/#comment-1624 anarcho-feral Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:21:09 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2005/10/the-spirit-of-st-louis/#comment-1624 this atricle i think makes clear both one of the pathologies that underlies ways in which techno-expantion happens, and by extention, ends. this being; the quest to abolish distance, as embodied by airplanes. what is bound to happen that i think will be of central importance. that is, the re-establishment of distance as related to low tech trasportation. what do yall think. this atricle i think makes clear both one of the pathologies that underlies ways in which techno-expantion happens, and by extention, ends. this being; the quest to abolish distance, as embodied by airplanes. what is bound to happen that i think will be of central importance. that is, the re-establishment of distance as related to low tech trasportation. what do yall think.

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