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forces were behind the collapse of the Berlin Wall,
and of Soviet Russia which was based on hardware
communism, and software is far more potent. It
raises issues of identity. The USSR’s collapsed into
a bunch of republics. And will collapse further. And
Canada undoubtedly is going to go that way in
fifty years or less. Break up into smaller nations
and a federation perhaps of those.
Because the message of electricity on the one
hand is very large mass audiences, on the other
hand it has the paradoxical effect of breaking up
the audience into very small groups. Very very
tiny, very small groups. So one of the first things it