Page 15 - The Miracle of Hormones

Introduction

vidually by means of a cellular phone
as to what he or she has to do. For
example, if one of these people is em-
ployed in a factory, he may sometimes
be told to increase the speed of produc-
tion, sometimes to slow it down, and
sometimes to alter the product. Finally,
imagine that an organized plan and
communications system exist so that
millions of people throughout the hun-
dreds of thousands of different loca-
tions all over the world work according
to this common plan.
Now, let's enlarge our example a
little. Imagine that the population of the
world is much greater than it is at pre-
sent, but that our organization func-
tions even more efficiently.
Suppose that the population is fif-
teen thousand times greater than it is
today, that there are fifteen thousand
other planets like this Earth and that the
6 billion people crowded onto each
planet make up a total of 100 trillion
people. Further suppose that this col-
lection of human beings works together
in perfect harmony, each individual
being informed by cellular phone as to
what he has to do.
This example is beyond our power to conceive, but is actually a sim-
plified description of an existing organization, which operates every sec-
ond throughout the whole world among the approximately 100 trillion
cells that make up the human body.

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