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gone the way of the stag line. Nor is it just the lineal and
sequential aspect of mechanical analysis that has been erased
by the electric speed-up and exact synchronizing of information
that is automation.
Automation or cybernation deals with all the units and
components of the industrial and marketing process exactly as
radio or TV combine the individuals in the audience into new
interprocess. The new kind of interrelation in both industry and
entertainment is the result of the electric instant speed. Our
new electric technology now extends the instant processing of
knowledge by interrelation that has long occurred within our
central nervous system. It is that same speed that constitutes
“organic unity” and ends the mechanical age that had gone
into high gear with Gutenberg. Automation brings in real “mass
production,” not in terms of size, but of an instant inclusive