With the sophistication and refinement of electronic devices an on-going process throughout the last half of this century, our relationship to these devices is experiencing a subtle but crucial change. At the moment using an electronic component is a 50/50 process. We must use a certain amount of energy and initiative to make the component perform the function for which it was designed: drop the cassette into the slot and push the play button; put the record on the turntable and adjust the volume controls of the amplifier; tune and then fine tune to get a particular radio or television broadcast. Not only must we have a desire for a certain series of events to take place, we must also participate physically and mechanically to see that those events take place.

The electronic equipment of the future is going to eliminate much of the action involved in the process of using electronics. Components already in the design and production stages require only a request on our part to perform their preordained functions. We will only have to ask and* we shall receive, as the electro-mechanical devices available today are replaced by totally electrical devices.