¶ Order
Index Entry
Order:
“We become more aware of this uniqueness of organizing principle in the Universe, in science. The long held myth that science wrests order out of chaos is fast disappearing in due ratio to the extent that all great scientists have found the Universe to exhibit an a priori orderliness. All the various specialties are discovering that their variously remote studies which seemingly ‘ordered’ local aspects of nature are converging within progressively simpler and more comprehensive patterns. The ‘ordering’ is coming together. When we refer to the computer and automation taking over we refer really to man’s externalization of his internal and organic functions into a total organic system which we call industrialization. This metabolic regenerating automated organism is going to be able to support life in an extraordinary way. The machines will increasingly assume various specialized functions. Man who was born spontaneously comprehensive but was focused by survival needs into specialization is now to be brought back to comprehensivity.”
¶ Citations
- Population Sequence (5), Feb’67
