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moment, for example, we are quite in the dark about the
political implications of Telstar. By outering these satellites as
extensions of our nervous system, there is an automatic
response in all the organs of the body politic of mankind. Such
new intensity of proximity imposed by Telstar calls for radical
rearrangement of all organs in order to maintain staying power
and equilibrium. The teaching and learning process for every
child will be affected sooner rather than later. The time factor
in every decision of business and finance will acquire new
patterns. Among the peoples of the world strange new vortices
of power will appear unexpectedly.
The full-blown city coincides with the development of
writing—especially of phonetic writing, the specialist form of
writing that makes a division between sight and sound. It was
with this instrument that Rome was able to reduce the tribal