society/machine connection

My mistake forgetting to post on time - anyway:

Galloway quotes Negri as saying "each kind of society corresponds to a particular kind of machine - with simple mechanical machines corresponding to sovereign societies, thermodynamic machines to diciplinary societies, cybernetic machines and computers to control societies."

This implies that the function of our machines is inherently tied to the function of our societies. I think this relationship is reactionary - a society can evolve to another 'period' only if it can widely recognize and incorporate a new way, a new method, of interaction within that society. Machines have a peculiar set of characteristics that perfectly situate them for this kind of societal recognition: 1) they are ubiquitous, man relies on machine and thus is always in contact 2) the creating, operating, and developing of machines requires the operator to think on the machine's terms, and to think beyond those terms.

So, if the machine world shifts to a new paradigm, society becomes constantly in contact with and mentally connected with that new paradigm, and that society quickly (consciously or unconsciously) becomes aware of and incorporates that paradigm to the functioning of society.