Now, this end of the Neolithic going along with the 
electronic is a return to the tribal encyclopedia. 
It’s a return to tribalism in the sense of a kind of 
comprehensive, inclusive consciousness. But it’s 
not pre-literate, it’s post-literate. And it’s very 
different to be post-literate from being pre-
literate. 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 Marfleet Lectures, Part 2: Towards An 
Inclusive Consciousness,” The Best of Ideas ,