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whole has become the unit of reckoning, and so with society,
politics, and education as wholes.
Electric means of storing and moving information with
speed and precision make the largest units quite as
manageable as small ones. Thus the automation of a plant or
of an entire industry offers a small model of the changes that
must occur in society from the same electric technology. Total
interdependence is the starting fact. Nevertheless, the range of
choice in design, stress, and goal within that total field of
electromagnetic interprocess is very much greater than it ever
could have been under mechanization.
Since electric energy is independent of the place or kind of
work-operation, it creates patterns of decentralism and
diversity in the work to be done. This is a logic that appears