Pro-log to exploration 357 CREATES A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE OLD ACCIDENTAL AND THE NEWLY PROGRAMMED EVENTS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE FOR ENRICHMENT THROUGH DIVERSITY. Hypnotized by their rear-view mirrors, philosophers and scientists alike tried to focus the figure of man in the old ground of nineteenth- century industrial mechanism and congestion. They failed to bridge from the old figure to the new. It is man who has become both figure and ground via the electrotechnical exten-sion of his awareness. With the extension of his nervous system as a total information environment, man bridges art and nature. TODAY “NATURE” is THE MESS-AGE BUT MAN IS STILL THE CONTENT