Automation certainly assumes the servomechanism and 
the computer. That is to say, it assumes electricity as store 
and expediter of information. These traits of store, or 
“memory,” and accelerator are the basic features of any 
medium of communication whatever. In the case of electricity, 
it is not corporeal substance that is stored or moved, but 
perception and information. As for technological acceleration, it 
now approaches the speed of light. All nonelectric media had 
merely hastened things a bit. The wheel, the road, the ship, the 
airplane, and even the space rocket are utterly lacking in the 
character of instant movement. Is it strange, then, that 
electricity should confer on all previous human organization a 
completely new character? The very toil of man now becomes a 
kind of enlightenment. As unfallen Adam in the Garden of Eden 
was appointed the task of the contemplation and naming of 
creatures, so with automation. We have now only to name and