If, however, we are to effect the new "closure" that electronics has brought by its ablation or suppression of the older mechanical procedure of "one-thing-at-a-time," we must understand both the old and the new thoroughly. For our involvement in the older segmental and sequential patterns of perception and process is so extensive that our establishments of law, education and politics have been wholly shaped by the dynamics of lineality and of Euclidean space as it were. We are now, by our new technology, compelled to live a century or more ahead of our established models of perception and judgment. This is not a pleasant or comfortable situation. Let us take a single, but by no means modest sample of the force exerted upon our older habits of perception and experience by electronic technology.