coming into some kind of unity, some kind of truth 
emerging out of this integral pull of everything in a 
centrifugal way, into a moment of insight, truth, 
epiphany, whatever you want to call it.

The other thing too is—and I suppose it’s terribly 
obvious at this point—but he was one of the first 
people to observe that information, when it travels 
at the speed of light, or at the very least eighteen 
thousand miles per second, is transforming the 
way in which we understand each other. And when 
we pick up the phone and our friend on the West 
Coast responds almost with no measurable loss in 
time, well then he said, “We have eliminated the