Yet in an age of cheap and instantaneous communication and multiplying thickets of information, journals still perform an important task.

Although extremely expensive and requiring a large amount of power to operate, wormholes allow instantaneous communication across the solar system, as well as even more expensive instantaneous travel.

Indeed, they apply it to contracts by post as well as instantaneous communications.

Technology such as remote sensing, digital mapping, and instantaneous communications can help to predict, detect, and respond to potential fire crises.