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of the receiving fields. It is this provision of interacting-
places or mixing-places that allows us to react to the
world as a whole to a much greater degree than most
other animals can do.
Failure to understand the organic character of electric
technology is evident in our continuing concern with the
dangers of mechanizing the world. Rather, we are in great
danger of wiping out our entire investment in the pre-electric
technology of the literate and mechanical kind by means of an
indiscriminate use of electrical energy. What makes a
mechanism is the separation and extension of separate parts
of our body as hand, arm, feet, in pen, hammer, wheel. And the
mechanization of a task is done by segmentation of each part
of an action in a series of uniform, repeatable, and movable
parts. The exact opposite characterizes cybernation (or