manipulation of information as a means of creating wealth is 
no longer a monopoly of the stockbroker. It is now shared by 
every engineer and by the entire communications industries. 
With electricity as energizer and synchronizer, all aspects of 
production, consumption, and organization become incidental 
to communications. The very idea of communication as 
interplay is inherent in the electrical, which combines both 
energy and information in its intensive manifold.

     Anybody who begins to examine the patterns of 
automation finds that perfecting the individual machine by 
making it automatic involves “feedback.” That means 
introducing an information loop or circuit, where before there 
had been merely a one-way flow or mechanical sequence. 
Feedback is the end of the lineality that came into the Western 
world with the alphabet and the continuous forms of Euclidean