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dangers of comprehension.
The point of the matter of speed-up by wheel, road, and
paper is the extension of power in an ever more homogeneous
and uniform space. Thus the real potential of the Roman
technology was not realized until printing had given road and
wheel a much greater speed than that of the Roman vortex.
Yet the speed-up of the electronic age is as disrupting for
literate, lineal, and Western man as the Roman paper routes
were for tribal villagers. Our speed-up today is not a slow
explosion outward from centre to margins but an instant
implosion and an interfusion of space and functions. Our
specialist and fragmented civilization of centre-margin
structure is suddenly experiencing an instantaneous
reassembling of all its mechanized bits into an organic whole.
This is the new world of the global village. The village, as