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manipulation of information as a means of creating wealth is
no longer a monopoly of the stockbroker. It is now shared by
every engineer and by the entire communications industries.
With electricity as energizer and synchronizer, all aspects of
production, consumption, and organization become incidental
to communications. The very idea of communication as
interplay is inherent in the electrical, which combines both
energy and information in its intensive manifold.
Anybody who begins to examine the patterns of
automation finds that perfecting the individual machine by
making it automatic involves “feedback.” That means
introducing an information loop or circuit, where before there
had been merely a one-way flow or mechanical sequence.
Feedback is the end of the lineality that came into the Western
world with the alphabet and the continuous forms of Euclidean