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that disruption of any part of the organism can prove fatal to
the whole. Every industry has had to “rethink through” (the
awkwardness of this phrase betrays the painfulness of the
process), function by function, its place in the economy. But
automation forces not only industry and town planners, but
government and even education, to come into some relation to
social facts.
The various military branches have had to come into line
with automation very quickly. The unwieldy mechanical forms of
military organization have gone. Small teams of experts have
replaced the citizen armies of yesterday even faster than they
have taken over the reorganization of industry. Uniformly
trained and homogenized citizenry, so long in preparation and
so necessary to a mechanized society, is becoming quite a
burden and problem to an automated society, for automation