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location of the process. In entertainment media, we speak of
this fact as “mass media” because the source of the program
and the process of experiencing it are independent in space, yet
simultaneous in time. In industry this basic fact causes the
scientific revolution that is called “automation” or
“cybernation.”
In education the conventional division of the curriculum
into subjects is already as outdated as the medieval trivium
and quadrivium after the Renaissance. Any subject taken in
depth at once relates to other subjects. Arithmetic in grade
three or nine, when taught in terms of number theory, symbolic
logic, and cultural history, ceases to be mere practice in
problems. Continued in their present patterns of fragmented
unrelation, our school curricula will insure a citizenry unable to
understand the cybernated world in which they live.