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Shipping Business

I've never seen Johnny Mnemonic -- something about Keanu Reeves and R-rated movies just doesn't appeal to me. But the idea of a data courier is pretty interesting.

And we just got a bunch of letters today that were sent on Friday. So Friday afternoon, somebody dropped this stack of envelopes in a box in California. By 4:00 on Monday, they were in our box here -- clear across the country.

When we moved, a company packed all our stuff in a truck and less than one week later they unloaded it all in our house here.

FedEx overnight. UPS in a few days. Sponsor of this post, Logistics Group International, provides heavy hauling for commercial moves. Like your crates of anvils and pianos. Shipping, shipping.

Asymmetric proximity?

We can move ideas across the world. They can exist in multiple places at the same time. The Internet facilitated that.

Is the global transit infrastructure facilitating fluid reality?

Not until I can ship something and keep it, too.

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