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space. Feedback or dialogue between the mechanism and its
environment brings a further weaving of individual machines
into a galaxy of such machines throughout the entire plant.
There follows a still further weaving of individual plants and
factories into the entire industrial matrix of materials and
services of a culture. Naturally, this last stage encounters the
entire world of policy, since to deal with the whole industrial
complex as an organic system affects employment, security,
education, and politics, demanding full understanding in
advance of coming structural change. There is no room for
witless assumptions and subliminal factors in such electrical
and instant organizations.
As artists began a century ago to construct their works
backward, starting with the effect , so now with industry and
planning. In general, electric speed-up requires complete