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commodities.
It is quite easy to establish the fact that the same means
that served to create the world of consumer abundance by
mass production served also to put the highest levels of
artistic production on a more assured and consciously
controlled basis. And, as usual, when some previously opaque
area becomes translucent, it is because we have moved into
another phase from which we can contemplate the contours of
the preceding situation with ease and clarity. It is this fact that
makes it feasible to write The Gutenberg Galaxy at all. As we
experience the new electronic and organic age with ever
stronger indications of its main outlines, the preceding
mechanical age becomes quite intelligible. Now that the
assembly line recedes before the new patterns of information,
synchronized by electric tape, the miracles of mass production