Drugs
a panacea for stress-related conditions: fatigue, headaches, addictions, hair loss, weight gain, repititive-stress injuries, attention deficit disorders, anxiety, depression, and even impotence.

Escalator
an endlessly looping consumer shuttle. First exhibited in Paris at the Universal Exposition in 1900, and sponsored by the Otis Company of America, the escalator streamlines shopping by making the vertical horizontal.

Flight
a self-propelled sealed capsule. The passenger sits, pressurized, motionless, while the world hurtles by outside.

Money
an increasingly immaterial substance. It flows ever faster, ever more invisibly.