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which times and spaces are neither uniform nor continuous, as
they had seemed to be since the arrival of Renaissance
perspective. As for the speed of light, that is merely the speed
of total causality.
It is a principal aspect of the electric age that it
establishes a global network that has much of the character of
our central nervous system. Our central nervous system is not
merely an electric network, but it constitutes a single unified
field of experience. As biologists point out, the brain is the
interacting place where all kinds of impressions and experiences
can be exchanged and translated, enabling us to react to the
world as a whole . Naturally, when electric technology comes
into play, the utmost variety and extent of operations in
industry and society quickly assume a unified posture. Yet this
organic unity of interprocess that electromagnetism inspires in