Virilio's work on the dromology provides a model of a political economy. Called the "dromoeconomic" system, it incorporates aspects of temporality, consumption, and technology; arguably three of the core factors for consideration of the future organization of human societies. Durational factors manifest in issues of health, education, governance, data; consumption facilitates the politics of resource and territorial management; technology controls communication and transmission of energy at its

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... base form into the complexities of every facet of life. Living in a dromoeconomy means negotiating a material field created by the speeds of the global objects of communication. In this article, I focus on one aspect of the dromoeconomy, that of the users and producers of this system; the "dromospheric generation." I explore the generation of 2000s users of screen-based digital technologies, in particular focusing on the digital child ["digichild"] as the model information worker, whose operational skills in the field of "transmission" through game play, are producing the material grounds of the future, by their work in the transmission of energy in the dromoeconomy.