automation), which has been described as a way of thinking, as 
much as a way of doing. Instead of being concerned with 
separate machines, cybernation looks at the production 
problem as an integrated system of information handling.

     It is this same provision of interacting places in the 
electric media that now compels us to react to the world as a 
whole. Above all, however, it is the speed of electric involvement 
that creates the integral whole of both private and public 
awareness. We live today in the Age of Information and of 
Communication because electric media instantly and 
constantly create a total field of interacting events in which all 
men participate. Now, the world of public interaction has the 
same inclusive scope of integral interplay that has hitherto 
characterized only our private nervous systems. That is 
because electricity is organic in character and confirms the