unfamiliarity in the familiar that is necessary for the 
understanding of the life of forms. Electricity compels us to 
play our mechanical development backward, for it reverses 
much of that development. Mechanization depends on the 
breaking up of processes into homogenized but unrelated bits. 
Electricity unifies these fragments once more because its speed 
of operation requires a high degree of interdependence among 
all phases of any operation. It is this electric speed-up and 
interdependence that has ended the assembly line in industry.

     This same need for organic interrelation, brought in by 
the electric speed of synchronization, now requires us to 
perform, industry-by-industry, and country-by-country, exactly 
the same organic interrelating that was first effected in the 
individual automated unit. Electric speed requires organic 
structuring of the global economy quite as much as early