had yielded its inequities earlier to the translating power of the 
differential calculus. In a word, the fragmentation of the inner 
life by prices seemed as mysterious in the eighteenth century, 
as the minute fragmentation of space by means of calculus 
had seemed a century earlier.

     The extreme abstraction and detachment represented by 
our pricing system is quite unthinkable and unusable amidst 
populations for whom the exciting drama of price haggling 
occurs with every transaction.

     Today, as the new vortices of power are shaped by the 
instant electric interdependence of all men on this planet, the 
visual factor in social organization and in personal experience 
recedes, and money begins to be less and less a means of 
storing or exchanging work and skill. Automation, which is