which I deal with two dozen extensions, from 
speech and clothing to computers. For three 
thousand 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 
whatsoever. 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 consciousness. 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—