Highly mobile travelling. Khisty and Zeitler (2001) Systemic Practice & Action Research 14, 597 define hypermobility as the maximization of physical movement, while Gao et al. (2012) Canad. Geogr./Géog. canad. 56, 4, 439 are more specific, defining hypermobility as ‘a rapid switching of economic links among manufacturers, importers, and retailers’. Adams (1999) OECD argues that in mall-scale pedestrian societies, everyone knows everyone. In hypermobile societies old-fashioned geographical communities are replaced by aspatial communities of interest ‘we spend more of our time, physically, in the midst of strangers’.