whole has become the unit of reckoning, and so with society, 
politics, and education as wholes.

     Electric means of storing and moving information with 
speed and precision make the largest units quite as 
manageable as small ones. Thus the automation of a plant or 
of an entire industry offers a small model of the changes that 
must occur in society from the same electric technology. Total 
interdependence is the starting fact. Nevertheless, the range of 
choice in design, stress, and goal within that total field of 
electromagnetic interprocess is very much greater than it ever 
could have been under mechanization.

     Since electric energy is independent of the place or kind of 
work-operation, it creates patterns of decentralism and 
diversity in the work to be done. This is a logic that appears