incapable of interplay or collective awareness. Now, in the 
electric age, the very instantaneous nature of co-existence 
among our technological instruments has created a crisis quite 
new in human history. Our extended faculties and senses now 
constitute a single field of experience which demands that they 
become collectively conscious. Our technologies, like our private 
senses, now demand an interplay and ratio that makes rational  
co-existence possible. As long as our technologies were as slow 
as the wheel or the alphabet or money, the fact that they were 
separate, closed systems was socially and psychically 
supportable. This is not true now when sight and sound and 
movement are simultaneous and global in extent. A ratio of 
interplay among these extensions of our human functions is 
now as necessary collectively as it has always been for our 
private and personal rationality in terms of our private senses 
or “wits,” as they were once called.