The “wired planet” has no boundaries and no 
monopolies of knowledge. The affairs of the world 
are now dependent upon the “highest information” 
of which man is capable. (In the world of 
information theory, the word “information” means 
pattern , not raw data.) The boundaries between the 
world of affairs and the community of learning have 
ceased to exist. The workaday world now demands 
encyclopedic wisdom. Ecology is the simultaneous 
awareness of the interplay of the total field of 
processes. This simultaneity pushes the most banal 
situations into high relevance. Under these 
conditions, the old forms of specialized job has lost 
meaning. It was meaningful only at very low speeds,