Electronic technology has created a revolution in portability of information, documentation, and communication. We are now able to connect with people, information, organizations, and merchandise from anywhere at practically any time. As electronically fabricated environments replace actual physical surroundings, however, we become displaced. Anywhere is nowhere. Liberation from place can be a great boon, but when physical surroundings become irrelevant to what we do, they lose meaning for us and we cease to inhabit them in any meaningful way. Three dimensions of loss of place are examined. First, we are deprived of the aesthetic experiences particular places provide. Second, the aesthetically relevant habits of responsiveness to these places fade from our lives. Finally, we are losing a sense of place in general, most palpable in the privatization of public space. Even as it opens wonderful possibilities, the electronic information-communication revolution is closing areas rich in aesthetic habitation. Over-reliance on virtual, electronic connections undermines our connection to actual physical places, threatening to render us forever displaced, adrift in cyberspace. (Contains 5 notes.)