The Digital World Outruns the Physical World?

I had a thought the other day about the progress of technology. It seems to me that although science and technology has made all kinds of progress in the last couple decades, a lot of that progress has been limited to just one area: the digital world. Our world has become incredibly digitized in the last decade or so. Communications technology in particular has improved remarkably in the last few years. Now, if I have a smart phone, I can talk to people around the world instantly anytime, anywhere, or I can access the internet anytime, anywhere, and access incredibly large amounts of information almost instantly, or communicate with people on the other side of the world in real time.
  This is awesome, but it's interesting that physical technology hasn't progressed near as far. By physical technology, I mostly mean things like modes of transportation, such as cars, planes, ships, etc. Way back in the day, it used to be that communications could only go as fast as physical transportation would allow, by word of mouth, or by courier, or whatever, but that changed once the telegram was invented. Since then, communications technology has always been more advanced than physical technology. Today it's only more so.  I can talk with someone on the other side of the world in real time via the internet, but if I want to physically go there, the fastest commercial passenger jet, which flies at about 700 miles an hour (which I admit is actually pretty fast) can only get me there in about 18-20 hours.

  Physical technology has made some significant advances. In 2004, the NASA X-43A broke the world's flight airspeed record, setting the new record at over 7,500 mph, and the space shuttle reaches speeds far greater than that, getting up to 17,500 mph during atmospheric reentry, though I'm not sure if that should count, since it's falling, rather than flying. That's pretty cool, but the X-43 was an unmanned vessel. A human-piloted vessel still has yet to reach those speeds. The fastest cars in the world can reach speeds of up to around 250 mph. The fastest helicopter in the world, the Sikorsky X2, set a record of just under 300 mph in 2010. I'll easily admit that these are actually pretty impressive, but nowhere near the speed of the internet.
 Another thing to keep in mind is that I, an average ordinary common person, can access the internet and talk with someone on the other side of the world practically for free. Going anywhere physically, though, requires money, and the faster and farther you want to go, the more money it costs. For most ordinary people, physically traveling to the other side of the world is a very expensive proposition in and of itself. Doing so at the rapid speeds we're talking about is something only really rich people could afford.
  So, basically, there's a huge gap between the speed of communications and the speed of physical transportation of people or objects. It makes sense when you think about it, considering that with communications you're only sending a few electrical signals instead of an entire physical object. Still, I wonder if we'll someday be able to narrow that gap, with flying cars, or anti-gravitic flight, or even teleportation. Who knows? It's possible. 100 years ago, who would've imagined all of the technological advances that we have now?