Question

The ability to travel and communicate over greater distances in shorter amounts of time, due to technological innovations such as the airplane, automobile, telephone, and Internet, represents the idea of:________.
(A) time-space compression
(B) stimulus diffusion
(C) friction of distance
(D) relocation diffusion
(E) possibilism

Answer 1

Answer:

(A) time-space compression

Explanation:

• The concept of the time and space compression was given in the year 1989 by the American geographer David Harvey and it refers to the phenomenon of the relation between the space and the time. And this phenomenon often occurs as a result of the technological innovations and consist of the spatial and the temporal distances and overcomes the space barriers.