At electric speed, however, all that is reversed. Implosion 
and contraction then replace mechanical explosion and 
expansion. If the Handlin formula is extended to power, it 
becomes: “As power grew, and as outlying areas became 
accessible to power, it was localized in distinctive delegated 
jobs and functions.” This formula is a principle of acceleration 
at all levels of human organization. It concerns especially those 
extensions of our physical bodies that appear in wheel and road 
and paper messages. Now that we have extended not just our 
physical organs but the nervous system, itself, in electric 
technology, the principle of specialism and division as a factor 
of speed no longer applies. When information moves at the 
speed of signals in the central nervous system, man is 
confronted with the obsolescence of all earlier forms of 
acceleration, such as road and rail. What emerges is a total 
field of inclusive awareness. The old patterns of psychic and