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incapable of interplay or collective awareness. Now, in the
electric age, the very instantaneous nature of co-existence
among our technological instruments has created a crisis quite
new in human history. Our extended faculties and senses now
constitute a single field of experience which demands that they
become collectively conscious. Our technologies, like our private
senses, now demand an interplay and ratio that makes rational
co-existence possible. As long as our technologies were as slow
as the wheel or the alphabet or money, the fact that they were
separate, closed systems was socially and psychically
supportable. This is not true now when sight and sound and
movement are simultaneous and global in extent. A ratio of
interplay among these extensions of our human functions is
now as necessary collectively as it has always been for our
private and personal rationality in terms of our private senses
or “wits,” as they were once called.