In a landscape of whites and blacks, the most conspicuous person I saw was this man, my first Indian in the South, the owner-manager of a motel, a dot Indian with a caste mark on his forehead rather than a feather Indian.

Out in the yard a womanʼs hoarse contralto intoned a hymn.

When used in this manner, proximity technologies are said to be providing micro-location, because they can provide much more accurate information than GPS, especially in buildings where GPS does not operate with high accuracy (or possibly even at all). In a micro-location scenario, proximity can operate as a tighter description of where you are, but that misstates the power of proximity.

That's pretty much what I'm doing here today—asking you, right now, to sit down, take a deep breath, and stop. Try to see a future beyond that Brownian motion of your daily affairs.