technology requires utter human docility and quiescence of 
meditation such as befits an organism that now wears its brain 
outside its skull and its nerves outside its hide. Man must serve 
his electric technology with the same servomechanistic fidelity 
with which he served his coracle, his canoe, his typography, and 
all other extensions of his physical organs. But there is this 
difference, that previous technologies were partial and 
fragmentary, and the electric is total and inclusive. An external 
consensus or conscience is now as necessary as private 
consciousness. With the new media, however, it is also possible 
to store and to translate everything; and, as for speed, that is 
no problem. No further acceleration is possible this side of the 
light barrier.

     Just as when information levels rise in physics and 
chemistry, it is possible to use anything for fuel or fabric or