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James Reston wrote in The New York Times (July 7,
1957):
A health director . . . reported this week that a small
mouse, which presumably had been watching television,
attacked a little girl and her full-grown cat. . . . Both
mouse and cat survived, and the incident is recorded here
as a reminder that things seem to be changing.
After three thousand years of explosion, by means of
fragmentary and mechanical technologies, the Western world is
imploding. During the mechanical ages we had extended our
bodies in space. Today, after more than a century of electric
technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself
in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as
our planet is concerned. Rapidly, we approach the final phase of