than the digital computer needs numbers. Electricity points the 
way to an extension of the process of consciousness itself, on 
a world scale, and without any verbalization whatever. Such a 
state of collective awareness may have been the preverbal 
condition of men. Language as the technology of human 
extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so 
well, may have been the “Tower of Babel” by which men sought 
to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the 
promise of a means of instant translation of any code or 
language into any other code or language. The computer, in 
short, promises by technology a Pentecostal condition of 
universal understanding and unity. The next logical step would 
seem to be, not to translate, but to by-pass languages in favor 
of a general cosmic consciousness which might be very like the 
collective unconscious dreamt of by Bergson. The condition of 
“weightlessness,” that biologists say promises a physical