Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/06747_Field_TCUM T312.txt

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with computers and electric programming, the means of
storing and moving information become less and less visual
and mechanical, while increasingly integral and organic. The
total field created by the instantaneous electric forms cannot
be visualized any more than the velocities of electronic particles
can be visualized. The instantaneous creates an interplay
among time and space and human occupations, for which the
older forms of currency exchange become increasingly
inadequate. A modern physicist who attempted to employ
visual models of perception in organizing atomic data would
not be able to get anywhere near the nature of his problems.
Both time (as measured visually and segmentally) and space
(as uniform, pictorial, and enclosed) disappear in the electronic
age of instant information. In the age of instant information
man ends his job of fragmented specializing and assumes the
role of  information gathering. Today information-gathering