This is the difference between marching soldiers and ballet.

     It is a necessary approach in understanding media and 
technology to realize that when the spell of the gimmick or an 
extension of our bodies is new, there comes narcosis  or 
numbing to the newly amplified area. The complaints about 
clocks did not begin until the electric age had made their 
mechanical sort of time starkly incongruous. In our electric 
century the mechanical time-kept city looks like an aggregation 
of somnambulists and zombies, made familiar in the early part 
of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land .

     On a planet reduced to village size by new media, cities 
themselves appear quaint and odd, like archaic forms already 
overlaid with new patterns of culture. However, when 
mechanical clocks had been given great new force and