The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. - Marshall McLuhan

The stars are so big,
The Earth is so small,

Stay as you are.

The electronic age is a world in which causes and effects become almost interchangeable, as in music structures. (p. 99)

Typical of the reversing that occurs at break boundaries is the paradox that nomadic mobile man, the hunter and food-gatherer, is socially static. On the other hand, sedentary, specialist man is dynamic, explosive, progressive. The new magnetic or world city will be static and iconic or inclusive.