world. Meantime, the undone paper work mounts on each desk. 
And each department daily dispatches personnel by jet to 
remote areas for more data and reports. Such is the speed of 
this process of the meeting of the jet plane, the oral report, 
and the typewriter that those going forth to the ends of the 
earth often arrive unable to spell the name of the spot to which 
they have been sent as experts. Lewis Carroll pointed out that 
as large-scale maps got more and more detailed and extensive, 
they would tend to blanket agriculture and rouse the protest of 
farmers. So why not use the actual earth as a map of itself? 
We have reached a similar point of data gathering when each 
stick of chewing gum we reach for is acutely noted by some 
computer that translates our least gesture into a new 
probability curve or some parameter of social science. Our 
private and corporate lives have become information processes 
just because we have put our central nervous systems outside