and more into the form of information, moving toward the 
technological extension of consciousness. That is what is 
meant when we say that we daily know more and more about 
man. We mean that we can translate more and more of 
ourselves into other forms of expression that exceed ourselves. 
Man is a form of expression who is traditionally expected to 
repeat himself and to echo the praise of his Creator. “Prayer,” 
said George Herbert, “is reversed thunder.” Man has the power 
to reverberate the Divine thunder, by verbal translation.

     By putting our physical bodies inside our extended 
nervous systems, by means of electric media, we set up a 
dynamic by which all previous technologies that are mere 
extensions of hands and feet and teeth and bodily heat-
controls—all such extensions of our bodies, including cities—will 
be translated into information systems. Electromagnetic