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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