… communication is minus the body. So that began with the telegraph. The telegraph, also, had that built-in dimension of the instantaneous, and it completely transformed news and information. The mere speed—didn’t matter what was written—the fact that it went at the speed of light transformed everything. It caused the Civil War. Hidden ground of the American Civil War was the telegraph. No historian knows this. Read a book by Kenneth Stampp called “The Causes of the American Civil War” and you’ll find no mention of the telegraph anywhere.