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can make possible a multiplicity of tasks, just as with electric
power. Light is a nonspecialist kind of energy or power that is
identical with information and knowledge. Such is also the
relation of electricity to automation, since both energy and
information can be applied in a great variety of ways.
Grasp of this fact is indispensable to the understanding
of the electronic age, and of automation in particular. Energy
and production now tend to fuse with information and learning.
Marketing and consumption tend to become one with learning,
enlightenment, and the intake of information. This is all part of
the electric implosion that now follows or succeeds the
centuries of explosion and increasing specialism. The electronic
age is literally one of illumination. Just as light is at once energy
and information, so electric automation unites production,
consumption, and learning in an inextricable process. For this