not to have a point of view, the method not of closure and 
perspective but of the open “field” and the suspended 
judgment. Such is now the only viable method under electric 
conditions of simultaneous information movement and total 
human interdependence.

     Whitehead does not elaborate on the great nineteenth 
century discovery of the method of invention. But it is, quite 
simply, the technique of beginning at the end of any operation 
whatever, and of working backwards from that point to the 
beginning. It is the method inherent in the Gutenberg technique 
of homogeneous segmentation, but not until the nineteenth 
century was the method extended from production to 
consumption. Planned production means that the total process 
must be worked out in exact stages, backwards, like a 
detective story. In the first great age of mass production of