in one another, will come to reject such mechanical solutions. It 
is more difficult to provide uniqueness and diversity than it is to 
impose the uniform patterns of mass education; but it is such 
uniqueness and diversity that can be fostered under electric 
conditions as never before.

     Temporarily, all preliterate groups in the world have begun 
to feel the explosive and aggressive energies that are released 
by the onset of the new literacy and mechanization. These 
explosions come just at a time when the new electric 
technology combines to make us share them on a global scale.

     The effect of TV, as the most recent and spectacular 
electric extension of our central nervous system, is hard to 
grasp for various reasons. Since it has affected the totality of 
our lives, personal and social and political, it would be quite