Virilio's concern for speed is his most dominant idea concerning the modern age. Seeing all technological apparatuses in terms of speed gives them a negative spin, but that is not entirely accurate within Virilio's framework. Sometimes, someone else must extract it, shine on it a different light:

"It is thus necessary to make a distinction between speed and movement: a movement may be very fast, but that does not give it speed; a speed may be very slow, or even immobile, yet it is still speed. Movement designates the relative character of a body considered as "one," and which goes from point to point; speed, on the contrary, constitutes the absolute character of a body whose irreducible parts (atoms) occupy or fill a smooth space in the manner of a vortex, with the possibility of springing up at any point. (It is therefore not surprising that reference has been made to spiritual voyages effected without relative movement, but in intensity, in one place: these are part of nomadism).

D e l e u z e / G u a t t a r i
Nomadology: The War Machine

Here, Deleuze and Guattari are speaking of Kleist, but the same could be said about the texts Borges (springing up at any point, occupying space in the manner of a vortex) as well as his cyborges and his (questionable) existence in the world.