In the age of the Internet, automobile, and cell phone, the advantages of proximity are greatly exaggerated.

FORBES: Density Limits Are Urban Protectionism

Almost every major technological change seen in the world in the last 100 years has its roots in the U.S., from the airplane to the automobile, and from the Internet to smart phones and social networks.

FORBES: The United States Need Not Become Europe

The automobile of the future will connect to the Internet, sending and receiving information that will update drivers and passengers on the go.

FORBES: Forecast For The Auto Industry: Dense Cloud Coverage

Transformative inventions--the printing press, steam engine, telegraph, automobile, airplane, radio and television, computer and Internet and so on--require constant investment.

FORBES: Pressuring Business to Believe in Business

Sirius has major ties with automobile makers such as Ford, GM and Toyota and competes with Internet radio leader Pandora.

FORBES: Don't Tune Out Of Sirius, Hang On For $2 And Higher

Where Davidow has gone since we talked is to locating Internet-type connectivity in the context of other reinforcing feedback loops, including the growth of the automobile, the collapse of East Germany, and the career of Head-On Joe Connolly, who made a career of staging train wrecks before the enthusiastic masses.

FORBES: The Next Internet Disaster, and the Next...