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Today, the satellite environment has scrapped the
entire nature process of the planet. This was not
the result of an inadvertent blooper but of a
relentless pressure for more speed of information.
The resulting increase of environmental information
has in effect scrapped everything known as human
organization while at the same time retrieving
innumerable forgotten forms of human organization
from the most remote and prehistoric past. The
things we assumed as the ground for human
existence have simply been cancelled.
Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt, Take
Today: The Executive as Dropout , (New York,