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unfamiliarity in the familiar that is necessary for the
understanding of the life of forms. Electricity compels us to
play our mechanical development backward, for it reverses
much of that development. Mechanization depends on the
breaking up of processes into homogenized but unrelated bits.
Electricity unifies these fragments once more because its speed
of operation requires a high degree of interdependence among
all phases of any operation. It is this electric speed-up and
interdependence that has ended the assembly line in industry.
This same need for organic interrelation, brought in by
the electric speed of synchronization, now requires us to
perform, industry-by-industry, and country-by-country, exactly
the same organic interrelating that was first effected in the
individual automated unit. Electric speed requires organic
structuring of the global economy quite as much as early