Nathaniel Hawthorn discussing the Internet

Nathaniel Hawthorne had an inkling of what was going to happen in a super connected work.

Back in 1851:

“It is a fact — or have I dreamt it — that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence. Or, shall we say, it is itself a thought, nothing but thought, and no longer the substance which we deemed it.”