this fact awaited the electronic age, which found that instant 
speeds abolish time and space, and return man to an integral 
and primitive awareness.

     Today not only clock-time, but the wheel itself, is 
obsolescent and is retracting into animal form under the 
impulse of greater and greater speeds. In the poem above, 
Andrew Marvell’s intuition that clock-time could be defeated by 
speed was quite sound. At present the mechanical begins to 
yield to organic unity under conditions of electric speeds. Man 
now can look back at two or three thousand years of varying 
degrees of mechanization with full awareness of the mechanical 
as an interlude between two great organic periods of culture. In 
1911 the Italian sculptor Boccioni said, “We are primitives of an 
unknown culture.” Half a century later we know a bit more 
about the new culture of the electronic age, and that