building material, so with electric technology all solid goods can 
be summoned to appear as solid commodities by means of 
information circuits set up in the organic patterns that we call 
“automation” and information retrieval. Under electric 
technology the entire business of man becomes learning and 
knowing. In terms of what we still consider an “economy” (the 
Greek word for a household), this means that all forms of 
employment become “paid learning,” and all forms of wealth 
result from the movement of information. The problem of 
discovering occupations or employment may prove as difficult 
as wealth is easy.

     The long revolution by which men have sought to 
translate nature into art we have long referred to as “applied 
knowledge.” “Applied” means translated or carried across from 
one kind of material form into another. For those who care to