Add to ORKGAmong the innovations in technologies of transport and of information that have succeeded each other in the last two centuries, three have had a major impact and provoked a number of new perceptions of the world, based in particular on the idea of a new equality between places and their inhabitants. After looking at the steam-engine revolution in the nineteenth century, this article examines the revolution caused by the introduction of electricity (in the beginning of the twentieth century) and the tele-computing revolution (in the second half of the twentieth century). Although discussions associated with electricity are particularly marked by the idea of a return to the past, world views elaborated in the period of long-distance communica...