Today man has no physical body. He is translated into information, or an image… There are no connections in resonant space. There are only interfaces and metamorphoses.

As a sort of capsule observation, it could be said that the computer is the LSD of the business world, transforming its outlook and objectives. None of the existing goals of twentieth-century business enterprise can survive the impact of the computer for even ten years. The drop-out is not a phenomenon limited to the high school or the campus, for the higher the executive the more he feels cut off from the real developments of the operation he directs.

The implication of discarnate, disembodied existence in an information world is one for which our educational system has not quite prepared us.

...all such extensions of our bodies, including cities – will be translated into information processes.

“In this electric age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness […] By putting our physical bodies inside our extended nervous systems, by means of electric media, we set up a dynamic by which all previous technologies that are mere extensions of hands and feet and teeth and bodily heat-controls—all such extensions of our bodies, including cities—will be translated into information systems.”

In this electric age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. That is what is meant when we say that we daily know more and more about man. We mean that we can translate more and more of ourselves into other forms of expression that exceed ourselves. Man is a form of expression who is traditionally expected to repeat himself and to echo the praise of his Creator. "Prayer," said George Herbert, "is reversed thunder." Man has the power to reverberate the Divine thunder, by verbal translation.

In this electric age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire globe, and of the human family, a single consciousness?”

We all become show biz under the kind of news coverage we have, everybody expects coverage, everybody expects to be transformed into show biz to some degree.

Our private and corporate lives have become information processes just because we have put our central nervous systems outside us in electric technology.

Now that we have all been translated into electric information, the imagination is no longer needed in order to people our world with beings and objects from everywhere at once”.

Or, under electric conditions, does everybody become superman? As far as I know, the answer is absolutely yes. Any child is superhuman today – on the telephone or radio or on any electric medium. The traditional human dimension hardly exists anymore. “