The industrialization of agriculture, of animal husbandry, of fishing increases productivity and depopulates the countryside. The prospective of manufacturing to order living beings equipped with predetermined capacities, to order, confronts humanity with vital responsibilities of greater complexity than ever before. The village bell rings the seven canonical hours. Life in the fields passes in rhythm to these hours as was the case already for life in the monasteries. The time scale of a microprocessor is measured in billionth of seconds, that of an optic computer in million billionth of seconds.
Human perception remains at a level of a tenth of a second.
Computers are already from ten to a hundred million times faster than the human brain, on which they can impose their rhythms. One can go from one town on earth to another in less than a day. Trade is no longer concerned with bulky staple commodities, but with artistic or technical creations, data held in databases, the programming of future achievements. It is possible to get in touch with anyone immediately and everywhere, by sound or image. The new technical system develops up to a level of saturation of the human mind.