We have no precedent for this, no way of getting 
our bearings, nobody to tell us what’s happening. 
We are suddenly projected into a world where 
everything happens at once: that is, electrically. The 
same information is available at the same moment, 
from every part of the world. Energy is available 
everywhere at once and retrieval systems, electric 
retrieval systems, enable us to recall anything at all, 
instantly. This kind of total memory, such as for