need for over-all consideration of human unity. Men are 
suddenly nomadic gatherers of knowledge, nomadic as never 
before, informed as never before, free from fragmentary 
specialism as never before—but also involved in the total social 
process as never before; since with electricity we extend our 
central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every 
human experience. Long accustomed to such a state in stock-
market news or front-page sensations, we can grasp the 
meaning of this new dimension more readily when it is pointed 
out that it is possible to “fly” unbuilt airplanes on computers. 
The specifications of a plane can be programmed and the plane 
tested under a variety of extreme conditions before it has left 
the drafting board. So with new products and new 
organizations of many kinds. We can now, by computer, deal 
with complex social needs with the same architectural certainty 
that we previously attempted in private housing. Industry as a