moment, for example, we are quite in the dark about the 
political implications of Telstar. By outering these satellites as 
extensions of our nervous system, there is an automatic 
response in all the organs of the body politic of mankind. Such 
new intensity of proximity imposed by Telstar calls for radical 
rearrangement of all organs in order to maintain staying power 
and equilibrium. The teaching and learning process for every 
child will be affected sooner rather than later. The time factor 
in every decision of business and finance will acquire new 
patterns. Among the peoples of the world strange new vortices 
of power will appear unexpectedly.

     The full-blown city coincides with the development of 
writing—especially of phonetic writing, the specialist form of 
writing that makes a division between sight and sound. It was 
with this instrument that Rome was able to reduce the tribal