plainly enough in the difference between firelight and electric 
light, for example. Persons grouped around a fire or candle for 
warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, 
or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the 
same way, the social and educational patterns latent in 
automation are those of self-employment and artistic 
autonomy. Panic about automation as a threat of uniformity 
on a world scale is the projection into the future of mechanical 
standardization and specialism, which are now past.