Notions of progress in the twentieth century have increasingly centered upon paradigms of speed and acceleration. ... This means that we are living in a truly 'con-temporary' age, in which the past in all its forms is experienced as simultaneous with our own time, and in which our almost instantaneous connection with people in distant places have made spatial distance almost irrelevant.
――広島大学 後期日程/総合科学部(3月12日実施)――2005年