that disruption of any part of the organism can prove fatal to 
the whole. Every industry has had to “rethink through” (the 
awkwardness of this phrase betrays the painfulness of the 
process), function by function, its place in the economy. But 
automation forces not only industry and town planners, but 
government and even education, to come into some relation to 
social facts.

     The various military branches have had to come into line 
with automation very quickly. The unwieldy mechanical forms of 
military organization have gone. Small teams of experts have 
replaced the citizen armies of yesterday even faster than they 
have taken over the reorganization of industry. Uniformly 
trained and homogenized citizenry, so long in preparation and 
so necessary to a mechanized society, is becoming quite a 
burden and problem to an automated society, for automation