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between art and commerce, and between work and leisure.
Whereas in the mechanical age of fragmentation leisure had
been the absence of work, or mere idleness, the reverse is true
in the electric age. As the age of information demands the
simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are
most at leisure when we are most intensely involved, very much
as with the artists in all ages.
In terms of the industrial age, it can be pointed out that
the difference between the previous mechanical age and the
new electric age appears in the different kinds of inventories.
Since electricity, inventories are made up not so much of goods
in storage as of materials in continuous process of
transformation at spatially removed sites. For electricity not
only gives primacy to process , whether in making or in learning,
but it makes independent the source of energy from the