said that the entire globe would become one big 
wealth-producing, money-making machine. He saw 
all these ideas many years ago.

Let’s talk about business process engineering; the 
idea of Hammer. McLuhan came up with that idea. 
He said that with electricity, process becomes the 
prime mover. That the proccesses are the key to 
understanding the way things will happen in the 
information age. He talked about the need to—that 
all functions would have to be reorganized. He 
didn’t use the word “re-engineering” but he came 
damn close. This man, thirty years ago had it all. 
All the ideas.