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automation), which has been described as a way of thinking, as
much as a way of doing. Instead of being concerned with
separate machines, cybernation looks at the production
problem as an integrated system of information handling.
It is this same provision of interacting places in the
electric media that now compels us to react to the world as a
whole. Above all, however, it is the speed of electric involvement
that creates the integral whole of both private and public
awareness. We live today in the Age of Information and of
Communication because electric media instantly and
constantly create a total field of interacting events in which all
men participate. Now, the world of public interaction has the
same inclusive scope of integral interplay that has hitherto
characterized only our private nervous systems. That is
because electricity is organic in character and confirms the