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For 3,000 years, all human technologies have
been fragmentary extensions of the human body.
The electric extension of the central nervous
system has never occurred before and, therefore,
we are without any navigational chart whatever.
Mechanical systems are not closed in the way
that electric ones are. As we push our electric
technology it will flip open in the form of
corporate consiousness. The present interim is
baffling because it has a closed character, with
which we know not how to deal. An electric
system is very much like a small tribal society—
that is, ecological and homeostatic. After
centuries of a literate open system, additive and