For 3,000 years, all human technologies have 
been fragmentary extensions of the human body. 
The electric extension of the central nervous 
system has never occurred before and, therefore, 
we are without any navigational chart whatever. 
Mechanical systems are not closed in the way 
that electric ones are. As we push our electric 
technology it will flip open in the form of 
corporate consiousness. The present interim is 
baffling because it has a closed character, with 
which we know not how to deal. An electric 
system is very much like a small tribal society—
that is, ecological and homeostatic. After 
centuries of a literate open system, additive and