Today in class, Professor O’Malley brought up a topic called the Annihilation of Space and Time. To me, this was actually a very intriguing topic. The first example involved food. When you think about food, there is only certain kinds of foods that are offered at certain times of the year right? For example, we normally only eat corn and berries in the warmer weather months and potatoes, squash, and turnips in the colder months. Our diet is constricted by the place and time we are in. But now, however, with today’s modern technologies, food can be transported wherever so we can basically eat everything all year round. This is said to be radical dislocation. Now moving on, with the invention of the railroad systems and the telegraph, two obvious changes occurred: we had instant communication with distant places, and relatively rapid transit. These are all examples of the Annihilation of Space and Time because with these new technologies, it’s basically ignoring it! The next discussing was time zones. The time of day was a function of where you sat in space and was measured with the sun. People back in the day never followed the same time in the same area, so then what time really was it? See time in my opinion is an illusion to just keep each and every individual on track with a “schedule” for their day. The year 1880 was the beginning of the formation of regional time zones, also known as the “rearrangement of the authority that runs their lives.” The time of the day now had more to do with the telegraphic signals. The industrialization period forced regular clock hours. And as time goes on, more inventions are made. The invention of the telephone leads to the most important technologies. In 1900, motion pictures were common and so were phonograph recordings who Edison invented in 1877 which was used so dead people could talk to the dead (I know that is so not happening). And in 1905, flat disks were the most common form of music production. In a conclusion, today’s modern technologies has led to the annihilation of space and time.